The Structure of the Social World

Harvard FAS

Philosophy is taking an exciting social turn. This course will take you on a tour through the vast and quickly expanding field that is social ontology—from social entities, such as clubs, teams, families, and businesses, to social identities such as particular races, genders, and disabilities, and finally to social phenomena as varied as art, food, and money. We will examine the reality and nature of these elements of the social world in the context of foundational metaphysical questions such…