Dewey's Social Ontology: A Pragmatist Alternative to Searle's Approach to Social Reality. Issue 1 (1st January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Testa, Italo
• Is Part Of: International journal of philosophical studies. Volume 25:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 40
• Page End: 62
• Publication Date: 2017-01-01
• Subjects: Social ontology -- habit -- Dewey -- Searle -- collective Intentionality -- pragmatism -- status; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- History -- Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2016.1260625
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-2559

Abstract

Abstract: Dewey's social ontology could be characterized as a habit ontology, an ontology of habit qua second nature that offers us an account of intentionality, social statuses, institutions and norms in terms of habituations. Such an account offers us a promising alternative to contemporary intentionalist and deontic approaches to social ontology such as Searle's. Furthermore, it could be the basis of a social ontology better suited to explain both the maintenance and the transformation of social reality.