A01=Margaret Gilbert
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Author_Margaret Gilbert
Awareness
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Causality
Common knowledge
Common knowledge (logic)
Concept
Conformity
Consciousness
Consideration
Convention (norm)
Counterexample
Discussion group
Economy and Society
Emile Durkheim
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Existence
Explanation
Explication
Feeling
Holism
Hypothesis
Ideology
Individual
Individualism
Inference
Instance (computer science)
Methodology
Morality
Motivation
Mutatis mutandis
Naturalness (physics)
Person
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Philosophy of social science
Phrase
Political philosophy
Presumption
Principle
Probability
Rational agent
Rationality
Raymond Geuss
Reality
Reason
Referent
Requirement
Saul Kripke
Skepticism
Social actions
Social fact
Social group
Social phenomenon
Social reality
Social relation
Social science
Social theory
Society
Sociological theory
Sociology
State of affairs (sociology)
Subject (philosophy)
Suggestion
Synthese
Theory
Thought
Understanding
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691020808
- Weight: 608g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 1992
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Are social groups real in any sense that is independent of the thoughts, actions, and beliefs of the individuals making up the group? Using methods of philosophy to examine such longstanding sociological questions, Margaret Gilbert gives a general characterization of the core phenomena at issue in the domain of human social life. After developing detailed analyses of a number of central everyday concepts of social phenomena--including shared action, a social convention, a group's belief, and a group itself--she proposes that the core social phenomena among human beings are "plural subject" phenomena. In her analyses Gilbert discusses the work of such thinkers as Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Max Weber, and David Lewis. "Gilbert's book aims to ...exhibit some general and structural features of the conceptual scheme in terms of which we think about social groups, collective action, social convention, and shared belief...[It] offers an important corrective to individualistic thinking in the social sciences..."--Michael Root, Philosophical Review "In this rich and rewarding work, Margaret Gilbert provides a novel and detailed account of our everyday concepts of social collectivity.
In so doing she makes a seminal contribution to ...some vexed issues in the philosophy of social science...[An] intellectually pioneering work."--John D. Greenwood, Social Epistemology
