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  1. Social ontology

    Social ontology is a branch of ontology. Ontology is the philosophical study of being and existence; social ontology, specifically, examines the social world, and the entities that arise out of social interaction. A primary concern of social ontology is social groups, whether or not they exist, and if so, how they differ from any given collections of people. Much of social ontology is conducted within the social sciences, and is concerned with many of the same entities, such as institutions, socio-economic status, race, and language. Notable contemporary philosophers who study social ontology include John Searle, Margaret Gilbert, Amie Thomasson, Tony Lawson and Ruth Millikan. Wikipedia

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  2. plato.stanford.edu

    Social ontology is the study of the nature and properties of the social world. It is concerned with analyzing things in the world that arise from social interaction, and with explaining what makes them the things they are—that is, how the social world is "constructed." The field brings together a wide range of social entities and phenomena.
  3. plato.stanford.edu

    In social ontology, however, conventionalist theories are understood more precisely, following variants of David Lewis's 1969 analysis of convention, or else following analyses of convention that challenge Lewis's approach. Lewis argues that conventions are solutions to coordination problems. In interactive situations that have more than ...
  4. isosonline.org

    The Journal of Social Ontology was founded by ISOS to feature work in social ontology and collective intentionality. The topics that JSO covers range from small-scale everyday interactions to encompassing societal institutions, from expert teams to hierarchical organizations, and from unintended consequences to institutional design.
  5. plato.stanford.edu

    Social ontology: History. This is a supplementary document to the entry Social Ontology. The bibliography for this supplement is included in the main entry's bibliography. A.1 Ancient Philosophers on Nature Versus Agreement; A.2 Early Modern Debates on the Sources of Social Entities. A.2.1 Hobbes: the commonwealth as a product of covenants
  6. journalofsocialontology.org

    Vol. 10 No. 3 (2024): Special Issue: Report on the Panel from the Social Ontology 2023 Conference in Stockholm / Report on the Panel from the Social Ontology 2023 Conference in Stockholm The Paths of Social Ontology
  7. link.springer.com

    This article proposes a bridge-builder perspective on social ontology, which integrates folk ontology, scientific ontology and philosophical ontology. It argues that social ontology is important for normative theorizing and provides examples of its ecumenical practice.
  8. cambridge.org

    This chapter introduces different approaches to social ontology and argues that Heidegger's social ontology is non-reductive and has an unrestricted scope. It also explains Heidegger's transcendental method and his concept of being-with.

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