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Contested Institutional Facts [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2018 A significant part of contemporary social ontology has been focused on understanding forms of collective intentionality. It is suggested in this paper that the contested nature of some institutional matters makes this kind of approach problematic, and instead an alternative approach is developed, one that is oriented towards a micro-level analysis of ...
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A Non-Reductionist Solution to the Problem of Social Causation [PDF]
, 2011 The thesis of the causal closure of the physical world renders mental and social causation philosophically problematic. In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle offers a partial solution to the problem of the causal efficacy of social and ...
A. dos S. Gouvea, Rodrigo
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The non-existence of institutional facts [PDF]
Synthese, 2021 AbstractThat certain paper bills have monetary value, that Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia, and that Prince Philip is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II: such facts are commonly called ‘institutional facts’ (IFF). IFF are, by definition, facts that exist by virtue of collective recognition (where collective recognition can be direct or ...
Friedrich Christoph Dörge +1 more
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Facts, Values, and Institutions
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2017 Since the 1990s, an increasingly diverse set of Muslim scholars and institutions has called for the integration of social science into the system of Islamic normativity. This article explores some historical and conceptual issues raised by this call. It approaches the issue through an examination of one of its central concepts: the notion of fiqh al ...
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Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act: Facts and Fictions
Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021 doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4551 How to cite this:Kamal Z, Aleem M, Aziz N, Amjad HM. Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act: Facts and Fictions. Pak J Med Sci. 2021;37(5):1252-1253. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4551 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Kamal, Zahid +3 more
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War as an Institutional Fact: Semiotics and Institutional Legal Theory [PDF]
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2009 In institutional legal theory, norms and facts are reciprocally operating elements: an interplay in which meaning construction is closely connected with acting: the pragmatic understanding of legal language in terms of its uses. With the semiotic elements of institutional theory, extended by the notion of ‘semiotic groups’, an analytical framework can ...
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Instituting facts: Data structures and institutional order
Information and Organization, 2016 AbstractThe concept of the data structure is part of the accepted and relatively unexplored background of the information disciplines. As such, the data structure is treated largely as a technological artefact, helping to support but somewhat isolated from considerations of institutional order.
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Fiction as an Institution [PDF]
, 2017 John Searle and I agree about many important aspects about individual speech acts within fiction. I hope to reduce the area of disagreement by explaining how much work an analysis of fiction as linguistic behavior can do to solve the problems of truth ...
MARTINICH, A. P.
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, 2018 This infographic displays key facts and figures about Gettysburg College\u27s institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College, as of August ...
Wertzberger, Janelle
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Comparing Conceptions of Social Ontology: Emergent Social Entities and/or Institutional Facts? [PDF]
, 2015 It is commonplace, if erroneous, to suppose that worldviews (or ontological conceptions) that underpin, or are presupposed by, substantive analyses and/or methodological stances are somehow beyond interrogation2.
Lawson, T.
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