Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts Essays on John Searle's Social Ontology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tsohatzidis, Savas L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library ; 41
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ontology.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy and science.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophy of Mind.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Philosophy of Language.

This book includes ten original essays that critically examine central themes of John Searle’s ontology of society, as well as a new essay by Searle that summarizes and further develops his work in that area. The critical essays are grouped into three parts. Part I (Aspects of Collective Intentional...

Table of Contents:

• Aspects of Collective Intentionality
• Searle and Collective Intentions
• Foundations of Social Reality in Collective Intentional Behavior
• Joint Action: The Individual Strikes Back
• Collective Speech Acts
• From Intentions to Institutions: Development and Evolution
• The Ontogeny of Social Ontology: Steps to Shared Intentionality and Status Functions
• Social Reality and Institutional Facts: Sociality Within and Without Intentionality
• Aspects of Institutional Reality
• The Varieties of Normativity: An Essay on Social Ontology
• A Behavioural Critique of Searle's Theory of Institutions
• Searle versus Durkheim
• Searle's Derivation of Promissory Obligation.