Social Ontology
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Part of Elements in Metaphysics
- Author: Brian Epstein, Tufts University
- Publication planned for: May 2025
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009290548
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Social ontology is the study of the nature of the social world. This Element aims to provide an overview of this burgeoning field, and also to map the questions that theories in social ontology address. When we encounter a theory of some social thing – groups, law, gender, and so on –how are we to read it? What classes of theories have been explored and abandoned, and what classes are new and promising? The Element distinguishes theories of social construction from theories that characterize the products of social construction. For each, the Element works through a 'toy' theory and then discusses features that more realistic theories ought to include. Three running examples are discussed throughout the Element: (1) property, or ownership; (2) race, or racialized kinds; (3) collective attitudes (i.e., beliefs, desires, knowledge, intentions, etc., of groups and organizations). This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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- Publication planned for: May 2025
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009290548
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
- availability: Not yet published - available from May 2025
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Structuring the inquiry
3. Two other cases
4. Social construction: a simple theory
5. Developing a theory of social construction
6. Characterizing social kinds: starting simple
7. Ways to characterize social kinds
8. Pulling it together: social kinds and social construction
9. References.
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