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Raimo Tuomela is known to be a philosopher who enjoys criticism more than applause. This fact in our minds we have decided to write a critical paper to further stimulate philosophical discussion in the field of social ontology. We want to examine the role of we-attitudes in the existing philosophical analyses of social reality. It is our view that we-attitudes have gained too central a place in the leading philosophical accounts of social ontology. (Searle 1995; Tuomela 1995, Tuomela & Balzer 1999) We acknowledge the importance of we-attitudes, but think their role in the analysis of social institutions has been exaggerated.
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Mäkelä, P., Ylikoski, P. (2003). Others Will Do It: Social Reality by Opportunists. In: Sintonen, M., Ylikoski, P., Miller, K. (eds) Realism in Action. Synthese Library, vol 321. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1046-7_17
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