Author : Raimo Tuomela
Publisher : Research in Applied Linguistic
ISBN 13 : 9780804724227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (242 download)
Book Synopsis The Importance of Us by : Raimo Tuomela
Download or read book The Importance of Us written by Raimo Tuomela and published by Research in Applied Linguistic. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book develops a systematic philosophical theory of social action and group phenomena, in the process presenting detailed analyses of such central social notions as "we-attitude" (especially "we-intention" and mutual belief, social norm, joint action, and - most important - group goal, group belief, and group action)." "Humans are social beings whose accounts of their social life inherently rely on social group notions involving the core concept of "we." The crucial notions for understanding macro-level group notions are shown to be joint action, we-attitude (especially we-intention and mutual belief), social norm, and group-commitment-creating "authority system" (roughly, a system for the formation of joint intentions)." "Though this is a philosophical work, it presents a unified conceptual framework that may be useful to social scientists, especially social psychologists, as well as philosophers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved