Raimo Tuomela: Response to Arto Laitinen

Abstract

Laitinen’s paper shows good understanding of many aspects of my theory. However, there are some points that he seems to have misunderstood concerning my we-mode/I-mode distinction. He makes some innovative remarks on how to expand the theory to encompass broad social contexts where several groups are taken into account at the same time (cf. his new notion of “overall mode”). His critical remarks are, however, based on a view that is not mine. Below I will comment on the most central parts and arguments of this paper, but because of its length I cannot discuss all the details of his developments.