Practical Inference and Social Action

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter, is to study the conceptual nature of social action conforming to (or violating) community rules. More broadly, we shall be discussing some relevant philosophical issues underlying the conceptual framework of social action concepts and other social concepts created in the previous chapters. We shall start with a discussion of social loop beliefs and social practical inference, and our results will then lead to a clarification of various types of rule-conforming and rule-referring social action, as well as to a discussion of some aspects of the philosophical foundations of game theory.