The Background of Social Reality

1. The Cultural Background of Acting Together
Beatrice Kobow

2. Who Is Afraid of Group Agents and Group Minds?
Raimo Tuomela

3. Trying to Act Together
Hans Bernhard Schmid

4. Missing the Forest for the Trees
Kendy Hess

5. The Boys Carried the Piano Upstairs
Beatrice Kobow

6. Creating Interpersonal Reality through Conversational Interactions
Antonella Carassa, Marco Colombetti

7. Social Rules and the Social Background
Michael Schmitz

8. Sharing the Background
Titus Stahl

9. From Sharing a Background to Sharing One’s Presence
Ulla Schmid

10. Social Ontology, Cultural Sociology, and the War on Terror
Werner Binder

11. Three Ways of Misunderstanding the Power of Rules
Olivier Morin

12. Arbitral Functions and Constitutive Rules
Emanuele Bottazzi, Roberta Ferrario

13. Social Ontology as Embedded in the Tradition of Phenomenological Realism
Alessandro Salice

14. Ontological Dependence and Essential Laws of Social Reality the Case of Promising
Francesca Vecchi

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