Ontology of the Social: Agency, Attitudes and Ethics

Ontology of the Social: Agency, Attitudes, and Ethics brings together leading and emerging voices in analytic social ontology to address some of the most pressing philosophical issues concerning social reality, and its nature and features. The chapters in this volume engage with a set of core concerns that have significantly shaped contemporary debates in social ontology and collective ethics. Some of the themes that these essays explore are: collectivity, social groups, plural and collective action, agency, we-attitudes, and collective responsibility. Moving beyond traditional individualist frameworks, the contributors investigate how recent developments in these themes have transformed our understanding of social reality and influenced broader philosophical discussions about human action, shared agency, and normativity.Combining original scholarship with interdisciplinary perspectives, this volume will appeal to researchers and students working in social ontology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of mind and action.

About the Author

Bhaskarjit Neog teaches philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His areas of interest are social ontology, ethics, and moral and political philosophy. His 2024 book, What Responsibility? Whose Responsibility?, explores the possibility of a non-individualist explanation of collective responsibility.