Social ontology, in its broadest sense, is the study of the nature of social reality, including
collective intentions and agency. The starting point of Tuomela's account of collective
intentionality is the distinction between thinking and acting as a private person (" I-mode")
versus as a" we-thinking" group member (" we-mode"). The we-mode approach is based on
social groups consisting of persons, which may range from simple task groups consisting of
a few persons to corporations and even to political states. Tuomela extends the we-mode …

In May 2019, the Social Ontology Research Group (SORG) at the University of Glasgow
organised a two-day, interdisciplinary workshop on “Social Ontology, Normativity and
Philosophy of Law”. It brought together four UK PhD students and some of the international
leading researchers working in each of these fields: Säde Hormio, Hans Bernhard-Schmid,
Leonie Smith, Brian Epstein, Kirk Ludwig, Raimo Tuomela, Jessica Brown, Kent Hurtig, Olof
Leffler, Herlinde Pauer-Studer, and ourselves (Rachael Mellin and Miguel Garcia). This …