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The nature and significance of social ontology. [PDF]
Synthese, 2023 AbstractWe propose a bridge-builder perspective on social ontology. Our point of departure is that an important task of philosophy is to provide the bigger picture. To this end, it should investigate folk views and determine whether and how they can be preserved once scrutinized from the perspective of the sciences.
Guala F, Hindriks F.
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A plea for descriptive social ontology. [PDF]
Synthese, 2023 AbstractSocial 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, already in place.
Koslicki K, Massin O.
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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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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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, 2015 Abstract This chapter describes how social cognition is produced by the operation of diverse mechanisms that categorize the social world for the purposes of inference and decision-making. It describes the perception of agency, face perception, action parsing, and imitation as examples.
John Latsis
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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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A Unified Social Ontology [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Current debates in social ontology are dominated by approaches that view institutions either as rules or as equilibria of strategic games. We argue that these two approaches can be unified within an encompassing theory based on the notion of correlated equilibrium.
F. Guala, F. Hindriks
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On the historicity of social ontology [PDF]
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2020 ABSTRACTThe question I raise is whether the basic features of mind, social categories, and society are unchanging or changing. Some understandings of ontology would seem to suggest that social ontology is a branch of metaphysics. However, as the history of concepts such as metaphysical and ontology indicate, our concepts and knowledge are historical ...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008 There is room for considerable cooperation between archaeology and neuroscience, but in order for this to happen we need to think about the interactions among brain–body–world, in which each of these three terms acts as cause and effect, without attributing a causally determinant position to any one.
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