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« This Empty Tale » : monstration de l’envers et dire politique dans How the Dead Live de Will Self
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2008 This article envisages one of Will Self’s novels through the prism of the uncanny. Such tonality owes a lot to a poetics of radical inversion that taps the powers of contradiction to renew the tradition of ars moriendi. By resorting to a logic of excess,
Jean-Michel Ganteau
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John Searle on Institutional Facts
Metaphysics, 2010 One general categorization by some of the contemporary analytic philosophers divides the facts into institutional and brute. The characteristic of institutional facts is that they are constituted by collective recognition.
M.A. Abdullahi, M.T. Janmohammadi
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The Hardness of the Practical Might
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and EconomicsIncommensurability is often introduced with the small improvement argument. Options A and B are shown to be incommensurable when it is neither the case that A is preferred to (or better than) B nor that B is preferred to (or better than) A, but a ...
Sergio Tenenbaum
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Le credenziali: parole, disegni e poteri deontici Credentials: Words, Drawings, and Deontic Powers
, 2020 Abstract: Driving licenses, identity cards, passports, boarding passes, credit cards, ATM cards are examples of credentials. Credentials are documents that play a fundamental role in all modern societies. However, philosophers and social ontologists have not yet addressed the analysis of their nature and function.
Lorini Giuseppe +2 more
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On Searle and the collapse of civilization [PDF]
, 2020 This article addresses a neglected problem in Searle’s social ontology, namely, how human civilization may collapse. In the first section, I provide the theoretical framework.
González-Fernández, Rodrigo +1 more
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Low-Resource Deontic Modality Classification in EU Legislation
, 2023 In law, it is important to distinguish between obligations, permissions, prohibitions, rights, and powers. These categories are called deontic modalities.
Chakravarthy, Shashank M.; id_orcid +2 more
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Rights and obligations in Cambridge social ontology [PDF]
, 2022 Rights and obligations—sometimes referred to as deontology or deontic powers—are key to most contemporary conceptions of social ontology. Both Cambridge Social Ontology and the dominant analytic conception associated, most prominently, with John Searle ...
Slade-Caffarel, Yannick +1 more
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Telic power and its applications
, 2023 I introduce a newly identified form of power: telic power. While deontic power is a key concept in social ontology, it is too narrow to capture a central dimension of the social world.
Burman, Åsa,
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Ontological Holism Without Mental Holism:Bratman on Institutional Agency [PDF]
, 2023 In his recent book Shared and Institutional Agency, Bratman (2022) argues that institutional agents consist of a web of social rules that are shared among their members. I argue that Bratman is implicitly committed to ontological holism.
Hindriks, Frank; id_orcid
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, 2023 This paper has three aims. The first is to explicate what kind of entity legal offices are and what their specific mode of existence amounts to. The second is to explain in virtue of what these offices can be said to be legal. Finally, third, to show the
Luka Burazin, Burazin, Luka
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