Social Action by Seumas Miller
Social action is central to social thought. This centrality reflects the overwhelming causal significance of action for social life, the centrality of action to any account of social phenomena, and the fact that conventions and normativity are features of human activity. This book provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action, including cooperative action, conventional action, social norm governed action, and the actions of the occupants of organizational roles. A distinctive feature of the book is that it applies these theories of social action categories to some important moral issues that arise in social contexts such as the collective responsibility for environmental pollution, humanitarian intervention, and dealing with the rights of minority groups. Avoiding both the excessively atomistic individualism of rational choice theorists and implausible collectivist assumptions, this important book will be widely read by philosophers of the social sciences, political scientists and sociologists.Seumas Miller is a professorial research fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University (Canberra) and the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology (The Hague). Miller is the author or co-author of fifteen books and approximately 200 refereed articles, book chapters and other academic papers. He has been awarded over 40 competitive research grants (total value in excess of AU$20 million) including, the Australian Research Council Special Research Centre Grant for the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and, most recently, a European Research Council Advanced Grant on Global Terrorism and Collective Responsibility. His authored books include, Social Action (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Ethical Issues in Policing (with J. Blackler) (Ashgate, 2005), Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of the Dual Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences (with M Selgelid) (Springer, 2008), Terrorism and Counter-terrorism: Ethics and Liberal Democracy (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), Integrity Systems for Occupations (with A Alexandra) (Ashgate, 2010), Moral Foundations of Social Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Institutional Corruption (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521788861 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521788862 |
| Title | Social Action |
| Author | Seumas Miller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2001-11-26 |
| Number of pages | 322 |
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