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A plea for descriptive social ontology. [PDF]
Synthese, 2023 Social phenomena—quite like mental states in the philosophy of mind—are often regarded as potential troublemakers from the start, particularly if they are approached with certain explanatory commitments, such as naturalism or social individualism ...
Koslicki K, Massin O.
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Journal of Social Ontology, 2019 Construing ontology as an inventory of what genuinely and nonredundantly exists, this paper investigates two questions: (i) Do all – or any – social phenomena belong in ontology?
Lynne Rudder Baker
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The Social Ontology of Democracy
Journal of Social Ontology, 2019 This paper offers an account of the social foundations of a theory of democracy. It purports to show that a social ontology of democracy is the necessary counterpart of a political theory of democracy. It notably contends that decisions concerning basic
Roberto Frega
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Social Ontology: Some Basic Principles [PDF]
Papers, 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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Critical Theory and Processual Social Ontology
Journal of Social Ontology, 2016 The purpose of this article is to bridge the gap between critical theory as understood in the Frankfurt school tradition on the one hand, and social ontology understood as a reflection on the ontological presuppositions of social sciences and social ...
Renault Emmanuel
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The concept of moral education in Russian neo-Kantianism: correlation of philosophy and pedagogy [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article uncovers the key provisions of the moral education concept, formulated in the framework of Russian neo-Kantianism at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries but still remaining a poorly studied topic.
Vladimirov Pavel A. +1 more
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Two approaches to naturalistic social ontology
Synthese, 2023 Social ontological inquiry has been pursued in analytic philosophy as well as in the social scientific tradition of critical realism. These traditions have remained largely separate despite partly overlapping concerns and similar underlying strategies of
Matti Sarkia, Tuukka Kaidesoja
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An ontology co-design method for the co-creation of a continuous care ontology [PDF]
, 2014 Ontology engineering methodologies tend to emphasize the role of the knowledge engineer or require a very active role of domain experts. In this paper, a participatory ontology engineering method is described that holds the middle ground between these ...
Ackaert, Ann +9 more
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International Theory, 2020 This paper probes the attempt to use power analysis to link three domains: ontology, explanation, and the strategy of political actors. It shows how Katzenstein and Seybert develop an open social ontology that serves as the backdrop for explanations that
Stefano Guzzini
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Theoretical Procedures and Elder-Vass's Critical Realist Ontology [PDF]
, 2012 This article scrutinizes some theoretical procedures prevalent in the philosophy of social science. These procedures are exemplified in Elder-Vass’s critical realism, which promises to place the social sciences on a sound ontological footing. The article
Archer M. +7 more
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