Chapter 1. Introduction (Tiziana Andina) -- Chapter 2. A Theory of Social Institutions (Raimo Tuomela) -- Chapter 3. Institutions and Functions (Francesco Guala) -- Chapter 4. Institutional Externalism (Giuliano Torrengo) -- Chapter 5. Epistemic Virtues of Institutions (Snježana Prijić-Samaržia) -- Chapter 6. What Is an Act of Engagement? Social, Collegial and Institutional Protocols (Petar Bojanić) -- Chapter 7. Play it by Trust: Social Trust, Political Institutions and Leisure (Nebojša Zelić) -- Chapter 8. Individual Morality and the Morality of Institutions (Thomas Michael Scanlon) -- Chapter 9. Transgenerational Actions and Institutions (Tiziana Andina) -- Chapter 10. From Capital to Documediality (Maurizio Ferraris) -- Chapter 11. The Basis of European Cooperation (Jonathan Wolff) -- Chapter 12. Ways of Compromise-building in a World of Institutions (Emmanuel Picavet).

This edited volume presents the social ontology of institutions. It questions what institutions are, what features and properties institutions have and what kinds of institution are present in the social world. The book answers these questions from both a speculative and an applied approach, it argues for a specific definition of institutions as a rule-based equilibria, as collective epistemic agent that is characterized by meaning, principles and power and as product of a We-mode and an imposition of a function. This book started from the interdisciplinary conference Playing by the Rules in Rijeka and contains contributions from Philosophy, Sociology and Economy. Institutions in Action is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the many different aspects and accounts about the social ontology of institutions. This much needed book presents researchers a very wide state of the art about the topic of institution by presenting the many differences that emerge in comparing the different positions.