▪ Abstract It is common to categorize social scientific theories as either individualistic or
holistic, and to assume that they are opposites. This neat picture is not so much wrong as too …

In this paper, I review the literature on rational choice theory (RCT) to scrutinize a number of
criticisms that philosophers have voiced against its usefulness in economics. The paper has …

Conceptual engineering is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with assessing
representational devices such as concepts and words. Conceptual engineers looks for the …

Calls for justice and reconciliation in response to political catastrophes are widespread in
contemporary world politics. What implications do these normative strivings have in relation …

Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do
what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity …

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 …

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a
completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical …

Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of
individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important …

Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops
a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the …

A philosophically useful account of social structure must accommodate the fact that social
structures play an important role in structural explanation. But what is a structural …