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Tuomela on Sociality

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Editors:
  1. Miguel Garcia-Godinez

    1. University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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  2. Rachael Mellin

    1. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

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  • Provides a comprehensive critical treatment of Raimo Tuomela’s philosophical theory of social reality
  • Celebrates Raimo Tuomela’s unprecedented contribution to the fields of social ontology and collective intentionality
  • Surveys key elements involved in answering various foundational questions about the construction of the social world

Part of the book series: Philosophers in Depth (PID)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Miguel Garcia-Godinez, Rachael Mellin
    Pages 1-10

  3. We-mode in Theory and Action

    • Raul Hakli, Kaarlo Miller, Pekka Mäkelä
    Pages 11-35

  4. Tuomela and the Unity of Belief

    • Sara Rachel Chant
    Pages 37-58

  5. Joint Actions: We-Mode and I-Mode

    • Seumas Miller
    Pages 59-78

  6. Towards a Situated Approach of Tuomela’s Theory of Social Practices

    • Judith H. Martens
    Pages 79-104

  7. What Is Collective Acceptance and What Does It Do?

    • Arto Laitinen
    Pages 105-127

  8. Can There Be Institutions Without Constitutive Rules?

    • Frank Hindriks
    Pages 129-149

  9. Institutional Proxy Agency: A We-Mode Approach

    • Miguel Garcia-Godinez
    Pages 151-176

  10. From We-Mode to Role-Mode

    • Michael Schmitz
    Pages 177-200

  11. Group Morality and Moral Groups: Ethical Aspects of the Tuomelian We-Mode

    • Björn Petersson
    Pages 201-218

  12. Tuomela on Social Norms and Group-Social Normativity

    • Olle Blomberg
    Pages 219-241

  13. Cooperation Rests on Trust—But What Is Trust and How Do We get There?

    • Maj Tuomela
    Pages 243-266

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 267-271
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About this book

 Raimo Tuomela, late Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT), University of Helsinki, is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of our time. He published extensively on various topics within social philosophy; particularly, on social action, cooperation, group belief, group responsibility, group reasoning, social practices, and institutions. To celebrate his legacy, this volume engages with and delves deeply into his philosophy of sociality. By gathering original essays from a world-class line-up of social ontologists, social action theorists, and social philosophers, this collection provides the first comprehensive and critical treatment of Tuomela's outstanding contribution to social ontology and collective intentionality.

Reviews

Over the course of forty years Raimo Tuomela first laid the foundations, and then developed a philosophical theory that has profoundly influenced current debates on social ontology. The energy, commitment, and care that he invested in this project are reflected and celebrated in a volume where friends of collective intentionality explore its implications and defend it from criticism, while sceptics identify the main challenges it faces. There is no better way to honour Tuomela's memory than this, and he certainly would have been delighted. 
—Francesco Guala, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Milan, Italy



This welcome collection of essays focuses on Raimo Tuomela’s wide-ranging contributions to the philosophical debates on the nature of joint action and other central social phenomena. The essays helpfully combine exposition and constructive commentary on a variety of aspects of Tuomela’s work by experts in the field.


 —Margaret Gilbert, Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine 


Raimo Tuomela blazed a now well-trodden trail in his work on the significance and varieties of collective action. This set of essays offers, not just a deserved tribute to his pioneering achievement, but an insightful overview and appraisal of the many aspects of that work.


 —Philip Pettit, L. S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Miguel Garcia-Godinez

  • University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Rachael Mellin

About the editors

Miguel Garcia-Godinez is an IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCC, Philosophy. His main research areas are legal philosophy, social ontology, and metaethics.

Rachael Mellin is a Law PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her primary areas of research are in legal philosophy and social ontology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tuomela on Sociality

  • Editors: Miguel Garcia-Godinez, Rachael Mellin

  • Series Title: Philosophers in Depth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22626-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22625-0Published: 04 May 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22628-1Due: 04 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22626-7Published: 03 May 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2947-552X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-5538

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 271

  • Topics: Social Philosophy, Social Theory

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