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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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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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, 2021 Social ontology is the philosophical study of the nature and properties of the social world. Language plays a seemingly key role in explicating how social kinds come into being and are set up. Nonetheless, surprisingly little has been written about the precise role of language in social ontology and how we should understand the constructive force of ...
Mikkola, M., Mari Mikkola
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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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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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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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Social Ontology and Social Cognition [PDF]
, 2013 The aim of this paper is to show that there is a reciprocal dependency relationship between social cognition and social ontology. It is argued that, on the one hand, the existence conditions of socially meaningful objects and of social groups are about subjects’ social cognitive processes and interactive patterns and, on the other hand, social ...
Lo Presti, Patrizio
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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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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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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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