Background of Social Reality

• Introduction.- Part I. The Ontology of Groups: Their Minds, Intentions, Actions and Interactions.- Chapter 1. Who is Afraid of Group Agents and Group Minds?; Raimo Tuomela.- Chapter 2. Trying to Act Together - The Structure and Role of Trust in Joint Action; Hans Bernhard Schmid.- Chapter 3. Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Theoretical Irrelevance of Shared Intentions; Kendy Hess.- Chapter 4. The Boys Carried the Piano Upstairs: Reconsidering Akratic Action in Groups; Beatrice Kobow.- Chapter 5. Creating Interpersonal Reality through Conversational Interactions; Antonella Carassa and Marco Colombetti.- Part II. Into the Background: Capacties and Cases.- Chapter 6. Social Rules and the Social Background; Michael Schmitz.- Chapter 7. Sharing the Background: Searle, Wittgenstein and Heidegger on the Background of Rule-Governed Behavior; Titus Stahl.- Chapter 8. Becoming Aware of One Another - Two Routes towards Joint Attention; Ulla Schmid.- Chapter 9. Social Ontology, Cultural Sociology, and the War on Terror: Towards a Cultural Explanation of Institutional Change; Werner Binder.- Part III. Social Reality: Its Essence and Constitution.- Chapter 10. Three Ways of Misunderstanding the Power of Rules; Olivier Morin.- Chapter 11. Arbitral Functions and Constitutive Rules; Emanuele Bottazzi and Roberto Ferrario.- Chapter 12. Social Ontology as Embedded in the Tradition of Phenomenological Realism; Alessandro Salice.- Chapter 13. Ontological Dependence and Essential Laws of Social Reality; Francesca de Vecchi.

“The book might be an interesting companion to social ontology, not only for professional philosophers or sociologists but also for all who are interested in a variety of aspects of the social. It presents contributions of the younger generation interested in the philosophy of society, in most cases grown in the tradition of collective intentionality, and from the spatial point of view, a significant part of contributors come from European (partially continental) traditions, which may significantly complement analytic/atlantic tradition.” (Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski, Anthropos, Vol. 111, 2016)