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This monograph is written with great clarity and with intelligent use of arguments and recent literature. * Sandro Guli, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, The Philosophical Quarterly *

This monograph is written with great clarity and with intelligent use of arguments and recent literature. * Sandro Guli, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, The Philosophical Quarterly * Burman's Nonideal Social Ontology is an exceptional book. It combines plain language with deep philosophical reflection about substantive matters: mainly, the influence of gender, race and class in society and how we can spell it out...Burman's book is an important philosophical contribution. * Miguel Garcia-Godinez, Analysis * Åsa Burman's book Nonideal Social Ontology: The Power View offers something valuable for both newcomers and experts in the field of social ontology. * August Faller, Metascience *

This monograph is written with great clarity and with intelligent use of arguments and recent literature. * Sandro Guli, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, The Philosophical Quarterly * Burman's Nonideal Social Ontology is an exceptional book. It combines plain language with deep philosophical reflection about substantive matters: mainly, the influence of gender, race and class in society and how we can spell it out...Burman's book is an important philosophical contribution. * Miguel Garcia-Godinez, Analysis * Åsa Burman's book Nonideal Social Ontology: The Power View offers something valuable for both newcomers and experts in the field of social ontology. * August Faller, Metascience * Åsa Burman's book Nonideal Social Ontology: The Power View offers something valuable for both newcomers and experts in the field of social ontology. * August Faller, Metascience * Nonideal Social Ontology is an important achievement and will form a landmark in social ontology that articulates the shortcomings of the old approach, shows why a change is needed to meet other important goals, and shows how we can do it. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the history of recent work in social ontology, or in doing social ontology going forward. * Amie Thomasson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

This monograph is written with great clarity and with intelligent use of arguments and recent literature. * Sandro Guli, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, The Philosophical Quarterly * Burman's Nonideal Social Ontology is an exceptional book. It combines plain language with deep philosophical reflection about substantive matters: mainly, the influence of gender, race and class in society and how we can spell it out...Burman's book is an important philosophical contribution. * Miguel Garcia-Godinez, Analysis *

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Åsa Burman (formerly Andersson) is Reader in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. She is an editor of the Journal of Social Ontology. She holds a Ph.D. from Lund University in Sweden and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

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