The Genesis and Transformation of Social Consciousness: An Attempt at the Construction of Social Naturalism

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.1 The Ontological Reflection of Political and Social Beliefs
	1.2 The Rediscovery of Social Consciousness
	1.3 The Collective Intentionality Hypothesis
	1.4 Between Idealism and Materialism: A Naturalist Approach
	1.5 Summary of Chapters
	Bibliography
Part I: Intentionality and Actions
	Chapter 2: From Speech Act to Intentionality
		2.1 Prehistory: The Performative Theory of Speech Acts
		2.2 John Searle and Psychological Reduction
		2.3 Meaning or Intentionality? Critique of Psychological Reduction
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: The Structure of Intentionality
		3.1 The Intentionality in Perceptions
		3.2 The Intentionality in Actions
		3.3 Intentionality and Causality
		3.4 The Problem of the Background
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: The Meaningful Action and Commitment
		4.1 The Skeptical Argument and the Failure of Volition Theories
		4.2 Meaningful Action, Commitment, and Intentionality
		4.3 Conclusion: The Limits of Intentionality as Subjective
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: Collective Intentionality and Normativity
	Chapter 5: Normativity as Rational Grounds
		5.1 Norm Individualism: Instrumental Reason to Act
		5.2 Norm Rationalism: Self-Constitution of Normative Agency
		5.3 Deficits of Rational Approaches
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Normativity as Collective Creation
		6.1 Joint Commitment and Endowment with an “Ought”
		6.2 Social Reality and Institutional Facts
		6.3 Elements of Creating Institutional Facts
		6.4 Collective Imposition and Recognition
		6.5 Power Relations in the Background
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: Normativity as Intersubjective Control
		7.1 Interdependence: Humans as Ultrasocial Species
		7.2 Limits of Intersubjective Control
		7.3 Conclusion: The Limits of Intentionality as Objective
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part III: Normativity with Universal Validity
	Chapter 8: Communication and Social Evolution
		8.1 Ideology and Political Domination
		8.2 Communicative Action and Emancipatory Interest
		8.3 Communicative Action and Social Evolution
		8.4 The Mutual Exclusion of Communicative and Strategic Action
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Discourse Ethics and Moral Cognitivism
		9.1 A Practical Discourse of Normative Justification
		9.2 Political Realism on the Legitimation Problem
		9.3 Idealization, Institutionalization, and the Lifeworld
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Critique of Cognitive Parallelism
		10.1 Criticism I: Non-neutrality of the Normative Criterion
		10.2 Legitimation as Storytelling Process
		10.3 Criticism II: Paradigm and Research Program
		10.4 An Alternative Parallelism: Social Consciousness and Paradigm
		10.5 Social Naturalism: Social Consciousness as Intentionality Pattern
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	Chapter 11: Conclusion
		Bibliography
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Index