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John Searle on Institutional Facts

open access: yesMetaphysics, 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 Abdullahi, M Janmohammadi
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Systemic Facts: Toward Institutional Awareness in Criminal Courts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Criminal courts are often required, in the course of implementing existing doctrines of constitutional criminal law, to regulate other institutional actors within the criminal justice system — most notably, prosecutors and police officers.
Crespo, Andrew
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Social Ontology: Some Basic Principles

open access: yesPapers, 2006
The aim of this article is to explore the problem of social ontology, by developing the argument presented in The Construction of Social Reality (1995).
John R. Searle
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Meta-institutional Concepts: A new Category for Social Ontology

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2014
In Speech Acts, John Searle argues that institutional facts presuppose, for their existence, the existence of certain institutions (understood as systems of constitutive rules). In this paper I extend Searle’s theory of institutional facts arguing that a
Giuseppe Lorini
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Derechos humanos = Human rights

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Político, 2013
Este artículo, principalmente, aborda la naturaleza de y las relaciones entre instituciones, hechos institucionales, funciones de estatus y poderes deónticos. Destacan entre los sustantivos que nombran a esos poderes deónticos el «derecho», junto a otros
John R. Searle
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Reflections on the Ontology of Money

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2021
The suggestions outlined here include the following. Money is a bundle of institutionally sustained causal powers. Money is an institutional universal instantiated in generic currencies and particular money tokens.
Mäki Uskali
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Owning the libs: Post-truth in right-wing political discourse

open access: yesInternational Review of Public Policy, 2023
Emerging in scholarly discussions about political discourse over the past decade, the terms ‘post-truth’ and ‘denialism’ refer to disagreement not on public policy strategies but on the nature of truth itself.
Kris Hartley
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Post-truth and the Search for Objectivity: Political Polarization and the Remaking of Knowledge Production

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2019
The United States has entered an era of “post-truth” as even seemingly proven facts seem open to contestation. The contests over facts range from the existential (when conservatives deny climate change) to the trivial (when the Trump administration ...
Shreeharsh Kelkar
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From post-communist democratic laissez-faire to prevention of territorial fragmentation: tightening the rules of municipal splits in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990

open access: yesMiscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2021
The article discusses municipal boundary changes in Central and Eastern Europe, concentrating on the heavily under-researched phenomenon of municipal splits. The first part describes the basic facts of municipal secessions in the region analysed.
Swianiewicz Paweł
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Enchantment and critical distance in EU legal scholarship: what role for institutional lawyers?

open access: yesEuropean Law Open, 2022
The legal experts working for the European Union (EU) institutions facilitate EU policy-making activities. But no less importantly, they also shape the evolution of EU law.
Päivi Leino-Sandberg
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