Authors:Y. Abe, D.E. Bignell, T. Higashi,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ecology, symbioses, sociality, evolution, termites
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2000-11-30
List price: $419.00
ISBN-10: 0792363612
ISBN-13: 9780792363613

This book is the first attempt for 30 years to produce a research-oriented review of the biology of termites. There is a strong emphasis on the gains made from modern technologies and contemporary concepts, for example the molecular and morphological phylogenies, social theory, the culture of fastidious microorganisms, microelectrode probing, natural stable isotope analysis and protein purification. Evolutionary, behavioural and developmental relationships with cockroaches and other social insects are considered in detail, while no fewer than 7 chapters address the highly complex and perhaps u

Author: Terry Pinkard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reason, sociality, phenomenology, hegel
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1996-04-26
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 052156834X
ISBN-13: 9780521568340

This book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit available and develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history contained in it. Written in a clear and straightforward style, the book reconstructs Hegel’s theoretical philosophy and shows its connection to the ethical and political theory. Terry Pinkard sets the work in a historical context and reveals the contemporary relevance of Hegel’s thought to European and Anglo-American philosophers.

Authors:Audrey R. Chapman, Robert W. Sussman,
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: sociality, nature, origins
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 020230731X
ISBN-13: 9780202307312

Scientific developments have increasingly been transforming our understanding of the place of human beings in nature. The contributors to this book focus on the current status of research on sociality and the evolution of cooperative and altruistic behaviour in non-human and human primates. They examine questions related to the evolution, cultural viability, and hormonal underpinnings of human sociality in specific detail, and describe patterns of sociality that shed light on human social behaviour.

Author: Raimo Tuomela
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: view, point, shared, sociality, philosophy
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2010-03-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0199739064
ISBN-13: 9780199739066

The Philosophy of Sociality examines the nature of sociality in its various forms, with special emphasis on collective intentionality. Raimo Tuomela begins with a distinction between the "we-perspective" and the "I-perspective." His study of strong collective intentionality -- as expressed by joint intentions, collective commitment, group belief, authority-based group action, and other phenomena -- outlines the circumstances under which an individual is required to think and act as a group member. By developing a systematic theory of sociality, Tuomela investigates such topics as social instit

Author: Talmy Givon
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: cognition, communication, sociality, pragmatics, minds, context
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 2005-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 902723227X
ISBN-13: 9789027232274

Authors:Nikos Psarros, Katinka Schulte-Ostermann,
Publisher: Ontos Verlag
Keywords: philosophical, analysis, analyse, philosophische, sociality, facets
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 3938793392
ISBN-13: 9783938793398

The aim of this volume is to explore new approaches to the problem of the constitution of the various aspects of sociality and to confront these with received ideas. Therefore many of the contributions to this volume are devoted to a rather holistic and antireductionist conception of social objects, groups, joint actions and collective knowledge. The topics, that are dealt with include: the question of the ontological status of social objects and their relation to physical objects, collective agency and the question whether there can be shared knowledge and shared beliefs - a rather new topic

Author: Sabine C. Hess
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: person, vanuatu, space, memory, pacific, contemporary, lava, vanua, place, ideas, ideals, practice, sociality
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2009-07-30
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1845455991
ISBN-13: 9781845455996

Concerned with contemporary notions of personhood and the relationship between persons and places, this book, presents a detailed insight into the Vanua Lavan’s engagement with modernity, and examines how they relate to the past, make sense of the present and anticipate the future. Marilyn Strathern’s claim that the Melanesian person is a dividual by and large holds for the Vanua Lavan person. But Vanua Lavans have also been exposed to, and creatively engaged with, what can be summarised under the term ’Western individualism’. The author draws together several themes, d