1st Edition

Ontology of the Social Agency, Attitudes and Ethics

Edited By Bhaskarjit Neog Copyright 2027
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Ontology of the Social: Agency, Attitudes, and Ethics brings together leading and emerging voices in analytic social ontology to address some of the most pressing philosophical issues concerning social reality, and its nature and features. The chapters in this volume engage with a set of core concerns that have significantly shaped contemporary debates in social ontology and collective ethics.... Read more

Introduction

Bhaskarjit Neog

1. Realism, Constructionism, and Social Change

David P. Schweikard

2. Institutions and Normativity: Needs, Joint Action, and Reciprocity

Seumas Miller 

3. Uptake: A Plural Action View

Hans Bernhard Schmid  

4. Rethinking Responsibility and Group Responsibility in the light of a Normative Account of Personal Identity

Carol Rovane 

5. Collective Obligations without the ‘Quantum of Blame’

Bill Wringe

6. Moral Responsibility of Random Collectives

Bhaskarjit Neog

7. Legitimate Firms

Stephanie Collins

8. The Problem of Overlapping Collectives

Luke Roelofs 

9. Team Reasoning without Assurance: Morality as a (Largely) Non-Coordinating Practice

Jeremy Randel Koons

10. Social Reflective Equilibrium and Moral Progress

Sushruth Ravish 

11. On the Content and Role of We-intentions

Olle Blomberg

12. From the Second-person Singular Perspective to the First-Person Plural

Bijoy H. Boruah

13. First Person Perspective and Collective Intentionality- A Relook into the Relationship    Between I and the We

Manidipa Sen

Biography

Bhaskarjit Neog teaches philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His areas of interest are social ontology, ethics, and moral and political philosophy. His 2024 book, What Responsibility? Whose Responsibility?, explores the possibility of a non-individualist explanation of collective responsibility.