The Nature of Social Reality (original) (raw)

2013

Abstract

The present paper questions the validity of Maurizi o Ferraris’ critique of Searle’s development of social ontology. T he article compares both Searle’s and Ferraris’ positions in the attempt to stress the critical and problematic issues informing the latter’s views. The paper fina lly seeks to offer a better interpretation of Ferraris’ thought. The present article explicitly questions the validi ty of Maurizio Ferraris’ critique of Searle’s ‘construction’ of social ontology. Ferraris has principally developed such a critique in his two books Documentalità (2009) and Anima e Ipad (2011). In both works, Ferraris attempts to correc t what he considers a series of misinterpretations which h ave so far prevented theorists from developing a true social ontology. T he Italian philosopher critically engages the works in which Searle attemp ts to elaborate and elucidate the tenets of social ontology: The Construction of Social Reality (1995), and Making the Social World. The Structure of Hu...

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