Socializing Metaphysics supplies diverse answers to the basic questions of social metaphysics, from a broad array of voices. It will interest all philosophers and social scientists concerned with mind, action, or the foundations of social theory.

Chapter 1 Socializing Metaphysics: An Introduction Chapter 2 The Structure of the Social Atom: Joint Commitment as the Foundation of Human Social Behavior Chapter 3 Practical Intersubjectivity Chapter 4 The We-Mode and the I-Mode Chapter 5 Joint Action: From Individualism to Supraindividualism Chapter 6 Group with Minds of their Own Chapter 7 Social Ontology and Political Power Chapter 8 Conventions and Form of Life Chapter 9 Denotation and Discovery Chapter 10 Individual Autonomy and Sociality Chapter 11 Social Construction: The "Debunking" Project Chapter 12 Social Construction, Social Roles, and Stability

Frederick F. Schmitt is professor of philosophy at Indiana University. He is author of Knowledge and Belief (1992) and Truth: A Primer (1995), and editor of Socializing Epistemology: The Social Dimensions of Knowledge (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994).