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192Can brains in vats think as a team?Philosophical Explorations 6 (3): 201-218. 2003.Abstract The specter of the ?group mind? or ?collective subject? plays a crucial and fateful role in the current debate on collective intentionality. Fear of the group mind is one important reason why philosophers of collective intentionality resort to individualism. It is argued here that this measure taken against the group mind is as unnecessary as it is detrimental to our understanding of what it means to share an intention. A non-individualistic concept of shared intentionality does not nec…Read more
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15Gemeinsames Dasein und die Uneigentlichkeit von Individualität. Elemente einer nicht-individualistischen Konzeption des DaseinsDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 49 (5): 665-685. 2001.
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25Das Böse an Augustinus’ BirnendiebstahlDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (4): 517-538. 2019.In the second book of theConfessions, Augustine flabbergasts his interpreters by exaggerating an adolescent escapade (a pear theft) and making it a monstrosity. He conjectures that the pear thieves might have commited the theft purely for the sake of thieving, and thus, that they displayed a kind of evil that is not even presented by the arch-villain of Ciceronian antiquity, the conspirer Catilina. Following Aquinas’ interpretation this comparison has been considered a reductio in most of the re…Read more
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Communal Feelings and Implicit Self-Knowledge. Hermann Schmalenbach on the Nature of the Social BondIn Alessandro Salice & Hans Bernhard Schmid (eds.), The Phenomenological Approach to Social Reality: History, Concepts, Problems, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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1Beyond Self-goal Choice: Sen's Analysis of Commitment and The Role of Shared DesiresIn Fabienne Peter & Hans Bernhard Schmid (eds.), Rationality and Commitment, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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46The Phenomenological Approach to Social Reality: History, Concepts, Problems (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2016.What kind of reality is legal reality, how is it created, and what are its a priori foundations? These are the central questions asked by the early phenomenologists who took interest in social ontology and law. While Reinach represents the well-known “realist” approach to phenomenology of law, Felix Kaufmann and Fritz Schreier belonged to the “positivist” “Vienna School of Jurisprudence,” combining Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law with Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology—and thereby challenging Reina…Read more
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1Authentic Role Play: A Political Solution to an Existential ParadoxIn Gerhard Thonhauser & Hans Schmid (eds.), From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity: Heidegger’s Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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Introduction to the Symposium on Rationality and Commitment (vol 21, pg 1, 2005)Economics and Philosophy 21 (2). 2005.
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68Beyond self-goal choice: Amartya Sen's analysis of the structure of commitment and the role of shared desiresEconomics and Philosophy 21 (1): 51-63. 2005.In the current debate on economic rationality, Amartya Sen's analysis of the structure of commitment plays a uniquely important role . However, Sen is not alone in pitting committed action against the standard model of rational behavior. Before turning to Sen's analysis in section 2 of this paper, I shall start with an observation concerning some of the other relevant accounts
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1Rational fools, rational commitmentsIn Rationality and Commitment, Oxford University Press, Usa. 2007.
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30Being Well Together – Aristotle on Joint Activity and Common SenseIn Harald A. Wiltsche & Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (eds.), Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Methods and Perspectives. Proceedings of the 37th International Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 289-308. 2016.
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34Autonomie ohne Autarkie. Begriff und Problem pluralen HandelnsDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 55 (3): 457-472. 2007.‚Plural’ werden jene Handlungen genannt, die eine Mehrzahl von Akteuren und ein einziges, gemeinsames Ziel implizieren. Es gibt mehrere Analysen verschiedener Formen pluralen Handelns, welche aber alle mit gravierenden begrifflichen Problemen behaftet sind. In diesem Aufsatz wird ein Kernproblem der bisherigen Theorien pluralen Handelns identifiziert und einer Lösung zugeführt
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86Symposium on rationality and commitment: IntroductionEconomics and Philosophy 21 (1): 1-3. 2005.In his critique of rational choice theory, Amartya Sen claims that committed agents do not (or not exclusively) pursue their own goals. This claim appears to be nonsensical since even strongly heteronomous or altruistic agents cannot pursue other people's goals without making them their own. It seems that self-goal choice is constitutive of any kind of agency. In this paper, Sen's radical claim is defended. It is argued that the objection raised against Sen's claim holds only with respect to ind…Read more
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33Buchkritik – Vertrauen im gemeinsamen Tun. Über: Martin Hartmann: Die Praxis des VertrauensDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 60 (4): 630-632. 2012.
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13Authentic Role Play: A Political Solution to an Existential ParadoxIn Schmid Hans Bernhard & Thonhauser Gerhard (eds.), From conventionalism to social authenticity : Heidegger’s anyone and contemporary social theory, Springer. 2017.Most social roles require role identification from the side of the role occupant, yet whoever identifies him- or herself with his or her social roles thereby mistakes him- or herself for what he or she is not, because role identity is determined by other people’s normative expectations, whereas self-identity is self-determined. This paper first develops an interpretation of this existential paradox of role identity, and then suggests a Rousseauvian perspective on how the tension between being on…Read more
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96Philosophy of ScienceIn Sebastian Luft & Søren Overgaard (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, . 2011.This chapter briefly summarises work by four key figures in the phenomenological philosophy of science: Edmund Husserl; Martin Heidegger; Patrick Heelan; and Joseph J. Kockelmans. In addition, some comparison is made with well-known figures in mainstream philosophy of science, and suggestions are given for further readings in the phenomenological philosophy of science.
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29Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents (edited book)Springer. 2013.The contributions gathered in this volume present the state of the art in key areas of current social ontology. They focus on the role of collective intentional states in creating social facts, and on the nature of intentional properties of groups that allow characterizing them as responsible agents, or perhaps even as persons. Many of the essays are inspired by contemporary action theory, emotion theory, and theories of collective intentionality. Another group of essays revisits early phenomeno…Read more
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49The Background of Social Reality: Selected Contributions from the Inaugural Meeting of ENSO (edited book)Springer. 2013.This volume aims at giving the reader an overview over the most recent theoretical and methodological findings in a new and rapidly evolving area of current theory of society: social ontology.
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79IntroductionErkenntnis 79 (S9): 1563-1563. 2014.The main impetus for organizing this event was the publication, in 2011, of Philip Pettit’s and Christian List’s book, *Group Agency*. List and Pettit argue that interpreting institutions like commercial corporations, governments, political parties, trade unions, churches, and universities as group agents offers a better understanding of their internal working and their effects on social life. Pettit and List base their account of group agency on a so-called “functionalist account of agency” whi…Read more
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