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Covert Institutionality: Sacred Mountains, Witches and Exorcists
I develop an account of covert institutional facts by examining sacred objects, witches, shamans and exorcists. I present an account of sacred objects as covert institutional entities, and distinguish between true beliefs that help create the ...
Filip Buekens
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L’Europe en soi: proposition pour un récit politique européen
This article proposes a narrative voice for European politics by the use of some interviews that have been made with political actors that work or have worked in the European institutions.
Toni Ramoneda
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The observation of a session of a Bachelor’s degree course, about and with the tools of institutional pedagogy, gave rise to a written report. These issues raised two sets of questions. Firstly : how to describe what was seen and experienced ?
Sandrine Benasé-Rebeyrol
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Reciprocal Illumination: Epistemological Necessity or Ontological Destiny? Some Preliminary Remarks
This paper explores two different but intimately linked concepts. First, there is “reciprocal illumination”, or the relation of interdependence of the object of knowledge and its subject. Second is the “irreversibility” which characterizes the process of
Jovan Babić
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Moral Judgments as Descriptions of Institutional Facts [PDF]
It deals with the question of what a moral judgment is. On the one hand, a satisfactory theory of moral judgments must take into account the descriptive character of moral judgments and the realistic language of morals.
Ferber, Rafael
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Social Ontology: Some Basic Principles
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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War as an Institutional Fact: Semiotics and Institutional Legal Theory [PDF]
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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Meta-institutional Concepts: A new Category for Social Ontology
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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Reflections on the Ontology of Money
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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Derechos humanos = Human rights
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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