Realism in Action

1. Realism, Truth, and Explanation. - What Philosophers Should Know about Truth and the Slingshot. - From Erklären-Verstehen to Prediction-Understanding: The Methodological Framework in Economics. - The Archaeological Construction of the Past: Some Realist Moderations. - The Backward Induction Paradox and Epistemic Logic. - 2. Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory. - The Scope of Motivation and the Basis of Practical Reason. - Activity and Passivity. - Reasons and Causes: The Case of Collingwood. - Intending and Trying: Tuomela vs. Bratman at the Video Arcade. - Spinoza on Causal Explanation of Action. - On the Structuralist Constraints in the Explanation Scheme of Folk Psychology. - 3. Intentions, Trust and Social Institutions. - Commitments. - The Components of Rational Trust. - Grounding We-intentions in Individual Social Attitudes. - Social Groups, Collective Intentionality, and Anti-Hegelian Skepticism. - Social Institutions. - Common Belief and Common Knowledge. - Others Will Do It: Social Reality by Opportunists. - Science as Collective Knowledge.