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" A Theory of Social Action "
by Raimo Tuomela.
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BL
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734120
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b553946
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by Raimo Tuomela.
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A Theory of Social Action\ by Raimo Tuomela.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1984
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Synthese library, 171.
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(548 pages)
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9400963173
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: 9789400963177
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1: Philosophy and the Theory of Social Action --;I Scientific Realism and the Social Sciences --;II Theorizing about Social Action --;2: Individualism and Concept Formation in the Social Sciences --;I Holistic Social Concepts --;II Conceptual Individualism --;III We-Intentions and Social Motivation --;3: Theories of Action --;I Views of Human Action --;II Mental Cause Theory --;III Agency Theory --;IV Hermeneutic Theory --;V Arguments for and against Causal Theories of Action --;4: The Purposive-Causal Theory of Human Action --;I The Fundamental Elements of the Purposive-Causal Theory of Action --;II The Structure of Single-Agent Action --;5: The Structure of Social Action --;I The General Nature of Social Action --;II Simple Social Actions --;III Complex Social Actions --;IV The Acting of Social Collectives --;V Group Interests Revisited --;6: Action Generation --;I Action Generation and the By-Relation --;II Action Generation and the Theory of Automata --;III Social Actions, Grammars, and Social Conduct Plans --;7: Practical Inference and Social Action --;I Loop Beliefs and Practical Inference --;II Mutual Beliefs --;III The Replicative Justification of Social Beliefs --;IV Social Action and Practical Inference --;V Mixed Interest Games and Practical Inference --;VI Social Rules and the Scope of Social Action --;8: Norms, Rules, and Social Structures --;I Social Norms --;II Social Rules --;III Similarity and Roles --;IV Social Structures --;9: Social Interaction and Control --;I Acting in Social Relation --;II Overt Social Interaction --;III Covert Social Interaction --;10: A Pragmatic Theory of Explanation --;I Explaining as Communicative Action --;II Emphasis --;III Understanding and Presuppositions --;11: Proximate Explanation of Social Action --;I Explanation and Social Action --;II Teleological Explanation --;III Purposive-Causal Explanation --;IV Reason-Explanation --;V Explaining the Style of Action --;VI Understanding Action --;12: Dynamic Explanation of Social Action --;I Explanation and Other-Regarding Utilities --;II Expected Utilities, Motives, and the Explanation of Social Action --;III The Nature of Dynamic Action Explanations --;13: Functional and Invisible Hand Explanation of Social Action --;I Action-Functions and Functional Explanations --;II Invisible Hand Explanations of Social Action --;14: Explanatory Individualism and Explanation of Social Laws --;I Explanatory Individualism --;II Explanation of Social Laws --;Notes --;Name index --;Index of Symbols, Definitions, and Theses.
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It is somewhat surprising to find out how little serious theorizing there is in philosophy (and in social psychology as well as sociology) on the nature of social actions or joint act.
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Philosophy (General)
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Raimo Tuomela
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