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The Ant Trap - Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences (Paperback)
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The Ant Trap - Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
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We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and
artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are
all social objects - they are made, at least in part, by people and
by communities. But what exactly are these things? How are they
made, and what is the role of people in making them? In The Ant
Trap, Brian Epstein rewrites our understanding of the nature of the
social world and the foundations of the social sciences. Epstein
explains and challenges the three prevailing traditions about how
the social world is made. One tradition takes the social world to
be built out of people, much as traffic is built out of cars. A
second tradition also takes people to be the building blocks of the
social world, but focuses on thoughts and attitudes we have toward
one another. And a third tradition takes the social world to be a
collective projection onto the physical world. Epstein shows that
these share critical flaws. Most fundamentally, all three
traditions overestimate the role of people in building the social
world: they are overly anthropocentric. Epstein starts from
scratch, bringing the resources of contemporary metaphysics to
bear. In the place of traditional theories, he introduces a model
based on a new distinction between the grounds and the anchors of
social facts. Epstein illustrates the model with a study of the
nature of law, and shows how to interpret the prevailing traditions
about the social world. Then he turns to social groups, and to what
it means for a group to take an action or have an intention.
Contrary to the overwhelming consensus, these often depend on more
than the actions and intentions of group members.
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