This article addresses a neglected problem in Searle’s social ontology, namely, how human civilization may collapse. In the first section, I provide the theoretical framework. In the second section, I offer the key elements to understanding Searle’s ontology as well as his philosophy of society, emphasizing the role of constitutive rules and deontic powers. In the third section I examine how they improve trust and co-operation. Global and local natural disasters are distinguished in the fourth section, because the former is sufficient to undermine pacts, promises, constitutive rules and deontic powers, while the latter is neither sufficient nor necessary. In the fifth and final section, I put forward an argument via a thought experiment tha...
AbstractNowadays society is a web of status functions, roles and power. People's main concerns no lo...
Because of concerns that ongoing climate change could lead to a possible collapse of human civilizat...
The first group of articles attempt to give some insight into how we behave that is reasonably free ...
This article addresses a neglected problem in Searle’s social ontology, namely, how human civilizati...
John Searle’s theory of social ontology posits that there are indispensable normative components in ...
The first group of articles attempt to give some insight into how we behave that is reasonably free ...
Institutions are normative social structures that are collectively accepted. In his book Making the ...
We may be generally suspicious of global speculations regarding the future of humanity; but ...
The following considerations belong to what has recently been discussed as “social ontology”. The pa...
The difficulty of removing the prejudice: Causality, ontology and collective recognition V. P. J. Ar...
The article analyzes the phenomenon of ‘new’ catastrophes determined by the specifics of contemporar...
Hindriks argued that Searle’s theory of institutions suffers from a number of problems pertaining to...
Disaster is a phenomenon in which civilization, the product of human accomplishments, is violated by...
This essay is a contribution to social ontology, drawing on the work of John Searle and of Hernando ...
The question I raise is whether the basic features of mind, social categories, and society are uncha...
AbstractNowadays society is a web of status functions, roles and power. People's main concerns no lo...
Because of concerns that ongoing climate change could lead to a possible collapse of human civilizat...
The first group of articles attempt to give some insight into how we behave that is reasonably free ...
This article addresses a neglected problem in Searle’s social ontology, namely, how human civilizati...
John Searle’s theory of social ontology posits that there are indispensable normative components in ...
The first group of articles attempt to give some insight into how we behave that is reasonably free ...
Institutions are normative social structures that are collectively accepted. In his book Making the ...
We may be generally suspicious of global speculations regarding the future of humanity; but ...
The following considerations belong to what has recently been discussed as “social ontology”. The pa...
The difficulty of removing the prejudice: Causality, ontology and collective recognition V. P. J. Ar...
The article analyzes the phenomenon of ‘new’ catastrophes determined by the specifics of contemporar...
Hindriks argued that Searle’s theory of institutions suffers from a number of problems pertaining to...
Disaster is a phenomenon in which civilization, the product of human accomplishments, is violated by...
This essay is a contribution to social ontology, drawing on the work of John Searle and of Hernando ...
The question I raise is whether the basic features of mind, social categories, and society are uncha...
AbstractNowadays society is a web of status functions, roles and power. People's main concerns no lo...
Because of concerns that ongoing climate change could lead to a possible collapse of human civilizat...
The first group of articles attempt to give some insight into how we behave that is reasonably free ...