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83The Philosophy of Sociality: The Shared Point of ViewOup Usa. 2007.The Philosophy of Sociality offers new ideas and conceptual tools for philosophers and social scientists in their analysis of the social world.
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4Mutual Beliefs and Social CharacteristicsIn Georg Schurz (ed.), Advances in Scientific Philosophy, . pp. 467--480. 1991.
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The Application Process of a Theory: With Special Reference to Some Behavioral TheoriesSuomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 1968.
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66In this paper I will discuss a certain philosophical and conceptual program -- that I have called philosophy of social action writ large -- and also show in detail how parts of the program have been, and is currently being carried out. In current philosophical research the philosophy of social action can be understood in a broad sense to encompass such central research topics as action occurring in a social context (this includes multi-agent action); shared we-attitudes (such as we-intention, mu…Read more
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18Human Action and its Explanation: A Study of the Philosophical Foundations of PsychologyNoûs 18 (1): 112-120. 1984.
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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
Raimo Tuomela
(1940 - 2020)
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Retired faculty