Institutions in Action: The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World (Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality, 12)

The Importance of Institutions in Social Reality
Contents
Chapter 1: Social Corporations as Social Institutions
	1.1 Summary: Social Corporations Function as Extended Social Institutions.
	References
Chapter 2: Institutions and Functions
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 A (Very Short) Theory of Institutions
	2.3 Institutions and Functions
	2.4 Tokens, Types, and Clusters of Functions
	2.5 Institutional Change and Reform
	References
Chapter 3: Epistemic Virtues of Institutions
	3.1 Institution as a Collective Entity
	3.2 Institution: From a Collective Entity to Collective Agents
	3.3 Collective Epistemology Meets Virtue Epistemology
	3.4 The Epistemic Virtue of Institutions
	References
Chapter 4: What Is an Act of Engagement? Between the Social, Collegial and Institutional Protocols
	References
Chapter 5: Play It by Trust: Social Trust, Political Institutions and Leisure
	5.1 Trust, Institutions and Social Inclusion
	5.2 Trust and Social Trust
	5.3 Institutional Arrangements and Social Trust
	5.4 Institutions, Leisure and Social Inclusion
	5.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Individual Morality and the Morality of Institutions
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Diverse Understandings of Morality (A Slight Digression)
	6.3 A Preliminary Question About the Morality of Institutions and its Relation to Individual Morality
	6.4 Justice and Duties to Comply with Institutions
	6.5 Unjust Institutions
	6.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: States and Transgenerational Actions
	7.1 Basic Transgenerationality
	7.2 Secondary Transgenerationality
	7.3 States
		7.3.1 Ontology of the State
			7.3.1.1 How States Can Preserve Themselves over Time: Matters of Fact
			7.3.1.2 How States Can Preserve Themselves Over Time: Matters of Law
				Collective Actions: A Taxonomy
	References
Chapter 8: From Capital to Documediality
	8.1 Documents, Not Commodities
	8.2 Mobilization, Not Labour
	8.3 Recognition, Not Sustenance
	8.4 Self-Affirmation, Not Alienation
	8.5 Atomization, Not Classification
	8.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 9: The Basis of European Cooperation
	9.1 Forms of Cooperation
	9.2 Applying the Models
	9.3 Is There a Shared Vision of the EU?
	References
Chapter 10: Ways of Compromise-Building in a World of Institutions
	10.1 Introduction: Principles and Implementation
	10.2 Basic Principles and the Development of Compromise
	10.3 Some Benefits of Inclusion in a Pluralistic Process of Changing Interpretations: Dialogue, Reasoning and Feelings
	10.4 Conclusion
	References
Index