Précis of The Ant Trap
This article summarizes The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences. The book develops a new model for social ontology, applies it to groups and collective intentionality, and criticizes various forms of individualism. Part One of the book presents two traditional approaches to s...
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| description | This article summarizes The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences. The book develops a new model for social ontology, applies it to groups and collective intentionality, and criticizes various forms of individualism. Part One of the book presents two traditional approaches to social ontology and unifies them into the “grounding–anchoring model” for the building of the social world. Part Two shows that individualism is mistaken even for basic facts about groups of people, challenges prevailing views of group intention and action, and illustrates how to approach facts about groups in general. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35a5e547407548278ca97acc462a03682023-09-02T10:33:22ZengUniversity of ViennaJournal of Social Ontology2196-96552196-96632016-03-012112513410.1515/jso-2016-0001jso-2016-0001Précis of The Ant TrapEpstein Brian0Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA, e-mail: brian.epstein@tufts.eduThis article summarizes The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences. The book develops a new model for social ontology, applies it to groups and collective intentionality, and criticizes various forms of individualism. Part One of the book presents two traditional approaches to social ontology and unifies them into the “grounding–anchoring model” for the building of the social world. Part Two shows that individualism is mistaken even for basic facts about groups of people, challenges prevailing views of group intention and action, and illustrates how to approach facts about groups in general.https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2016-0001social ontologymetaphysicsanchoringcollective intentionindividualismgroupsagencysocial science |
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