Collective Intentionality, Norms and Institutions: A Philosophical Investigation about Human Cooperation

by Guido Seddone

Overview

This book addresses the conditions of the human cooperative activities in order to focus on their common roots and to bring them back to an unitary origin. It is profoundly animated by the task of understanding how cooperative skills are able to evolve the plurality of the cooperative activities from the spontaneous to the institutional ones and to find a common denominator for joint actions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631651964
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	06/30/2014
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Guido Seddone studied Philosophy, History and German at the Universities of Pisa and Vienna. He obtained a PhD in Philosophical Studies at the University of Cagliari (2005) and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Leipzig (2011). He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Sassari and Visiting Scholar at the University of Leipzig.

Table of Contents

Contents: Cooperation as fundamental characteristic of intelligent beings – Cooperative firmness as result of the interdependence between the duties of the individual participants and the existence of their own group – Intersubjective freedom – Hierarchies and obedience-readiness – Norms, institutions, states, hierarchies.