The Metaphysics Of The Social World
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The Metaphysics Of The Social World
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Author : Director of New York University in London and Professor of Philosophy at the School of Oriental and African Studies David-Hillel Ruben
language : en
Publisher: Savage, Md. : Barnes & Noble
Release Date : 1990
The Metaphysics Of The Social World written by Director of New York University in London and Professor of Philosophy at the School of Oriental and African Studies David-Hillel Ruben and has been published by Savage, Md. : Barnes & Noble this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with African Americans in literature categories.
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The Metaphysics Of The Social World
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Author : David-Hillel Ruben
language : en
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Release Date : 1985
The Metaphysics Of The Social World written by David-Hillel Ruben and has been published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Philosophy and social sciences categories.
Social Metaphysics
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Author : Amie Thomasson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-06-01
Social Metaphysics written by Amie Thomasson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-01 with categories.
Making The Social World
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Author : John Searle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-12
Making The Social World written by John Searle and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-12 with Philosophy categories.
There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. Searle explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. These institutions serve to create and distribute power relations that are pervasive and often invisible. These power relations motivate human actions in a way that provides the glue that holds human civilization together. Searle then applies the account to show how it relates to human rationality, the freedom of the will, the nature of political power and the existence of universal human rights. In the course of his explication, he asks whether robots can have institutions, why the threat of force so often lies behind institutions, and he denies that there can be such a thing as a "state of nature" for language-using human beings.
The Metaphysics Of Action
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Author : David-Hillel Ruben
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-25
The Metaphysics Of Action written by David-Hillel Ruben and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-25 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one’s action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical act but can be explained using conditionals; that action is not the same as causing something to happen; and in the case of a special but important subset of actions, for example the opening of a window, the action is identical to the event of the window’s opening. A result of this last account is that it places actions out in the world, sometimes far removed in time and space from the actor’s body. The world is full of action; actions do not just exist in the many little islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the final chapter, Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge to the idea that we can ever know whether or not someone else has acted, rather than just passive events having happened to that person.
Social Imaginary And The Metaphysical Discourse
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Author : Christoforos Bouzanis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-05
Social Imaginary And The Metaphysical Discourse written by Christoforos Bouzanis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-05 with Social Science categories.
This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at which scientific creativity occurs, it highlights the manner in which epistemic communities share, work on and modify not only the world-imaginaries that they endorse, but also those world-views that they reject or which partially overlap with their own. Through the concept of the social imaginary, the author explores the theoretical interrelations among various metaphysical world-imageries by which we organise our scientific understanding of the world and our expectations of experience, thus shedding light on the manner in which social ontology can inform our practices of sharing belief. A study at the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, The Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology and philosophy with interests in questions of ontology and epistemology.
Concepts And Society Rle Social Theory
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Author : Ian C. Jarvie
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-08-21
Concepts And Society Rle Social Theory written by Ian C. Jarvie and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-21 with Social Science categories.
The main concern of Dr Jarvie’s book is the relation of belief to action. He argues that people act in society because of beliefs, because of ‘the way they see things’. There is the world of physical and social conditioning – where fixed roles, tropisms, adaptations seem to operate; there is the world of mind – where action, alternatively, seems to originate; but then there is Karl Popper’s ‘third world’ – where dwell the objects of thought (ideals, theories, beliefs, values) which ‘directly affect how people act, and thus affect the way the world is’. Reform, change, improvement, modification, all proceed from the competitive interaction between our private beliefs about the world, and their ‘third world’ brothers. Jarvie contends that the struggle of privately held beliefs to realize themselves in the world through the actions of their believers is a fundamental force behind social change.
The Philosophy Of Social Research
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Author : J. A. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1990
The Philosophy Of Social Research written by J. A. Hughes and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Philosophy categories.
An attempt to bring some of the major issues and debates in the philosophy of social research up-to-date. There is a new chapter on the philosophy of science, the conclusion has been rewritten and other chapters have been updated.
The Ant Trap
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Author : Brian Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Philosophy o
Release Date : 2015
The Ant Trap written by Brian Epstein and has been published by Oxford Studies in Philosophy o this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Philosophy categories.
We live in a world of crowds and corporations, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects - they are made, at least in part, by people and communities. But what exactly are these things? How are they made, and what is the role of people in making them? 'The Ant Trap' rewrites our understanding of the nature of the social world and the foundations of the social sciences.
The Metaphysics Of Self And World
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Author : Elie Maynard Adams
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1991
The Metaphysics Of Self And World written by Elie Maynard Adams and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Philosophy categories.
A great fissure occurred in Western civilization in the early modern period with the divorce between the humanities and the sciences and the rise of scientific naturalism. The Metaphysics of Self and World is a philosophical exploration of the relationship between the individual, the culture, and the world. It is, in the author's words, "a philosophy of the humanities, a philosophy of humanity, and a philosophy of social reality." It explores the implications of a world-view that would integrate the perspective of the sciences with humanistic ways of thought. E.M. Adams claims that we do violence to ourselves as human beings by trying to fit into the world as delineated in scientific categories. Rejecting cultural subjectivism and scientific naturalism, he argues for the irreducibility and validity of the categories of the humanities and for a fully developed humanistic philosophy of self and world. In generating this world-view, he utilizes the humanities as a source of culture therapy in order to close the fissure in Western civilization. Author note: E. M. Adams is Kenan Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has written numerous books and articles, and a festschrift celebrating his work, Mind, Value, and Culture: Essays in Honor of E. M. Adams (edited by David Weissbord), was published in 1989.