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11[Book review] the importance of us, a philosophical study of basic social notions (review)In Stephen Everson (ed.), Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 108--4. 1998.
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5Review of Beyond Individual Choice: Teams and Frames in Game Theory (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (1): 125-133. 2009.
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86Acting as a Group Member and Collective CommitmentProtoSociology 18 7-65. 2003.In this paper we will study two central social notions, acting as a group member and collective commitment. Our study of the first of these notions is – as far as we know – the first systematic work on the topic. Acting as a group member is a central notion that obviously must be understood when speaking of the “we-perspective”, group life, and of social life more generally. Thus, not only philosophy of sociality, philosophy of social science, political and moral philosophy but also the various …Read more
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41The We-Mode Approach: A Response to John Wettersten’s Review of The Philosophy of Sociality: The Shared Point of ViewPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (3): 513-517. 2010.The paper is a response to some critical points and omissions in John Wettersten’s review of my recent book The Philosophy of Sociality: The Shared Point of View (Oxford University Press, 2007). I point out in this short paper that the reviewer has not discussed the most central notions in the book relating to its "we-mode" approach, i.e. collective acceptance, group reasons, the collectivity condition, collective commitment and their role in accounting for e.g. cooperation, social institutions,…Read more
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32Contemporary Action TheorySpringer. 1997.Contemporary Action Theory, Volume I is concerned with topics in philosophical action theory such as reasons and causes of action, intentions, freedom of will and of action, omissions and norms in legal and ethical contexts, as well as activity, passivity and competence from medical points of view. Cognitive trying, freedom of the will and agent causation are challenges in the discussion on computers in action. The Volume consists of contributions by leading experts in the field written specific…Read more
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4The fate of folk psychology'In Antti Revonsuo & Matti Kamppinen (eds.), Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience, Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 227--248. 1994.
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35In Search of the Common Mind: Philip Pettit's "The Common Mind"International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (2): 306. 1994.The philosophy of social science can still be regarded as a much less densely populated part of philosophy than most other fields in it. However, there are neighbours in which research is booming. Thus the philosophy of cognitive science (and philosophy of psychology, to use an older title) is very popular today and so is moral philosophy. Philip Pettit's new book (1993) is mainly on the philosophical problems of social science, but a substantial part of it is also devoted to philosophy of psych…Read more
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Responses to criticsIn Georg Meggle (ed.), Social Facts and Collective Intentionality. Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical research, Dr. Hänsel-hohenhausen. pp. 1--419. 2002.
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74Collective Acceptance and Social RealityThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 11 161-171. 2001.Many social properties and notions are collectively made. Two collectively created aspects of the social world have been emphasized in recent literature. The first is that of the performative character of many social things (entities, properties). The second is the reflexive nature of many social concepts. The present account adds to this list a third feature, the collective availability or “for-groupness” of collective social items. It is a precise account of social notions and social facts in …Read more
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10Eine pragmatisch-nomologische Theorie des wissenschaftlichen Erklärens und VerstehensIn Gerhard Schurz (ed.), Erklären Und Verstehen in der Wissenschaft, De Gruyter. pp. 125-170. 1990.
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232Are reason-explanations explanations by means of structuring causes?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (4): 813-818. 1990.
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28What Does Doing One’s Part of a Joint Action Involve?Analyse & Kritik 11 (2): 197-207. 1989.The paper gives a conceptual clarification of what the notion of a part of a joint action (project, etc;) involves. The - mutually recognized - division of a joint action into parts can be based on social norms (viz. formal or informal rules, or proper social norms such as conventions or group specific social norms) or it can be based on agreement, coercion, or some analogous social mechanism. The paper also discusses the notions of a we-intention, of the intention to perform an action as one’s …Read more
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16Diskussion/Discussion. Corporate Action: A Reply to ColemanAnalyse & Kritik 15 (2): 216-218. 1993.This short note argues that the basic points Coleman (1993) makes against my critical paper (1993) are incorrect. These points concern the possibility of a single agent holding a corporate goal, the doxastic conditions concerning group action, and 'jointness-effects'.
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42On radical conceptual revolutions in social scienceJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 22 (2): 303-320. 1991.Summary The paper considers arguments for and against correction and elimination of the basic conceptual categories as well as theories of social science. It is argued that some correction of at least some basic social notions is called for. A great part of the paper consists in a conceptual investigation of such notion of correction in terms of different notions of corrective explanation
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16The Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance ViewCambridge University Press. 2002.This is a systematic philosophical and conceptual study of the notion of a social practice. Raimo Tuomela explains social practices in terms of the interlocking mental states of the agents; he shows how social practices are 'building blocks of society'; and he offers a clear and powerful account of the way in which social institutions are constructed from these building blocks as established, interconnected sets of social practices with a special new social status. His analysis is based on the n…Read more
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77Methodological individualism and explanationPhilosophy of Science 57 (1): 133-140. 1990.This critical note concerns Harold Kincaid's "Reduction, Explanation and Empiricism" (this journal, December 1986). Kincaid criticizes methodological individualism on several grounds. The present note argues that Kincaid fails at least in his attempt to show that it is false that individualistic theory suffices to fully explain social phenomena. Kincaid's main reason for claiming that individualistic theory is insufficient is that it cannot adequately explain social kinds. The present note conte…Read more
Raimo Tuomela
(1940 - 2020)
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Retired faculty