作者: Hannes Rakoczy , Michael Tomasello
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6104-2_5
关键词: Social nature 、 Reductionism 、 Social psychology 、 Supervenience 、 Psychology 、 Epistemology 、 Social reality 、 Social fact 、 Collective intentionality 、 Intentionality 、 Philosophical theory
摘要: Searle’s (1995) book The Construction of Social Reality is one the great works late 20th-century philosophy. Like all philosophical works, it provides fresh new insights and perspectives on phenomena that lie right before our eyes every minute day. After work, in view, no right-minded thinker can seriously maintain a narrowly reductionist view nature human experience. Reality, need take theories ignore fundamentally social many most important aspects daily lives. basic proposal humans live as much institutional world they physical one. In football game, teams score are real grass dirt which game played. Searle thus develops an ontological framework for description basically everything. We at bottom consists brute, observer-independent facts. At very brute facts facts, level up chemical, biological, among latter intentional 1 Humans other animals beings. That Jack believes Mary loves him, she hopes he her objective about them. They sense holding independently any particular observers. But (and according to animals) not only individual beings, but also enter into irreducibly collective we-intentionality with others. When go dancing together, each intends dance “we together”. Where intentionality involved, we deal again, groups people. addition, there specific class involves application constitutive rules assignment some kind deontic status actions objects—and here leave realm reality, observer-independent. group people team certain move offside within This prima facie looks like usual levels picture invoking notion supervenience or similar determination relation. formulation this picture, though, bit idiosyncratic talks causation between lower higher (e.g., 1983, 1992, 1995) inconsistent reading conceptions (see, e.g., Kim 1995). will these details following.