Books written by Hans Bernhard Schmid
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Evil in Joint Action: The Ethics of Hate and the Sociology of Original Sin
Together with Bernhard Schlink's The Reader, this movie initiated a trend toward taking a hermeneutical attitude toward some of the main Third Reich perpetrators – an attitude of “understanding the Nazis” that sometimes has led to ...
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The Social Institution of Discursive Norms: Historical, Naturalistic, and Pragmatic Perspectives
The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms—the norms governing our thought and talk—are profoundly social.
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Groups, Norms and Practices: Essays on Inferentialism and Collective Intentionality
This edited volume examines the relationship between collective intentionality and inferential theories of meaning. The book consists of three main sections.
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Social Capital, Social Identities: From Ownership to Belonging
This collection of papers from various disciplines (philosophy, sociology, economics, religious studies) combines conceptual studies and empirical findings. It is a plea for re-embedding economic thought in a broader theoretical framework.
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Social Capital, Social Identities: From Ownership to Belonging
the first instance in which human agency is corrupted in such a way as to instantiate evil is joint action; rather, jointness must provide the key to an adequate understanding of how action may turn evil. Remember that we're still ...
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The Social Institution of Discursive Norms: Historical, Naturalistic, and Pragmatic Perspectives
"The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms-the norms governing our thought and talk-are profoundly social.
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Rationality and Commitment
The volume concludes with a specially-written reply by Sen, in which he responds to his critics and provides a rich commentary on the preceding essays.
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Collective Epistemology
„We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” This collection of essays addresses a philosophical problem raised by the first clause of these famous words.
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The Philosophy of Fanaticism: Epistemic, Affective, and Political Dimensions
This book explores some of the disconcerting realities of fanaticism by analyzing its unique dynamics and considering how it can be confronted.
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The Philosophy of Fanaticism: Epistemic, Affective, and Political Dimensions
... Polarization Toolkit,” in A. Tanesini & M. Lynch (eds.) Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism (London and New York: Routledge), 212–228. Chouraqui, F. (2019), “Fanaticism as a Worldview,” The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and ...
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We, Together: The Social Ontology of Us
... ways of doing it fail. When “community” becomes the topic of thought, things have usually gone wrong in one way of ... we shall see in Section 3.5, our conceptions of 216 We, Together.
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Rationality and Commitment
Amartya Sen p. 17 2 Construing Sen on Commitment Philip Pettit p. 28 3 Sympathy, Commitment, and Preference Daniel M. Hausman p. 49 Part II Rethinking Rationality p. 71 4 Instrumental Rationality versus Practical Reason: Desires, Ends, and ...
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Plural Action: Essays in Philosophy and Social Science
... the conventionalist line is rejected, or the idea of authenticity loses its anti-conventionalist teeth. The conventionalists follow the second line. It seems to me, that the conventionalist interpretation of authenticity, though moving ...
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From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity: Heidegger’s Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory
Rather, the concept could show how power and norms function. This volume would be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy and the social sciences who wish to investigate the social applications of the works of Martin Heidegger.
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Self-Evaluation: Affective and Social Grounds of Intentionality
... Taking Ourselves Seriously & Getting It Right. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Goldie, P. 2004. On Personality. Thinking in Action. London: Routledge. Humberstone, I. L. 1992. “Direction of Fit”. Mind 101:59–84. Kenny, A. 2003 ...
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Evil in Joint Action: The Ethics of Hate and the Sociology of Original Sin
Exploring the famous 'Pear Theft' episode in St Augustine's Confessions, this book looks beyond the theological implications of the event to focus instead on the secular insights that it offers, with particular reference to its relevance ...