The nature of social reality / edited by Claudia Stancati [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stancati, Claudia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Searle's theory of social reality is increasingly meeting with worldwide recognition, and is undoubtedly the most prominent theory of social ontology (at least in the post-analytical tradition), even if actual research in this domain is engaged in critical confrontation with it. Searle's approach continues to shape the debate, but his construction is more and more sharply dissected, both in its details and in its general assumptions. Furthermore, new perspectives, not rooted in the analytical...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; EPISTEMOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS; OUTLINE FOR A SOCIAL ONTOLOGY; DOCUMENTALITÀ AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY; THE SOCIAL ONTOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC OBJECTS; NORMS, INSTITUTIONS, INTENTIONALITY; NORMATIVE DIMENSIONS OF IMPOSSIBILITY; ACCEPTANCE, POWER AND SOCIAL ONTOLOGY; DISUSED NORMS; INSTITUTIONS WITHOUT ACTIONS; RIGHTS AND POLITICS; THE DECONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL ONTOLOGY; SOCIAL ONTOLOGY AND THE CONCEPT OF POWER; LEGAL AUTHORITY AND PRACTICAL REASONING; LANGUAGE; A FORMAL APPROACH TO THE ONTOLOGY OF SOCIAL BELIEFS

SOURCES AND BOUNDARIES OF INSTITUTIONAL AND LINGUISTIC NORMATIVITYAN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL ONTOLOGY; JOINT ACTION AND INTENTIONALITY; PERSPECTIVES; AND YET THERE WAS SOME; THE HETERONOMY OF NORMS AND THE REALITY OF SOCIETY; FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE; SOME CONCLUSIVE REMARKS. SOCIAL REALITY; GLOSSARY.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebary, viewed October 31, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6984-8

OCLC:

893739760