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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Published inJournal of social ontology Vol. 2; no. 1
Main Author Brian Epstein
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Vienna 01.03.2016
Subjects
anchoring
collective intention
groups
individualism
metaphysics
social ontology
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2196-9663