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Foundations of Institutional Reality (Hardcover)
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Foundations of Institutional Reality (Hardcover)
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In Foundations of Institutional Reality, Andrei Marmor provides a
novel account of the ontological foundations of institutional
facts, and argues that there are important epistemic and
methodological implications that follow from this ontology. Marmor
offers a grounding-reductive account of collective attitudes that
comports with methodological individualism. He argues for a
functional explanation of the constitutive relations between rules
and practices, challenging Searle's influential distinction between
constitutive and regulative rules. The first part of the book
offers a detailed reductive account of institutional facts by way
of metaphysical grounding. It shows that an ontology of
institutional facts requires an ontology of social rules, and the
latter depends on a reductive account of collective attitudes. The
second part of the book aims to show that there are a number of
important epistemic and methodological conclusions that follow from
the ontology of institutional facts. First, that there are certain
types of comprehensive, group-wide, errors about the socially
constructed aspects of reality that are not metaphysically
possible. The second methodological argument is that a metaphysical
account of institutional reality does not have to provide an
explanation of the relevant social practices in terms that would
rationalize the practice for the participants themselves. Finally,
the last chapter explains the idea of hierarchical practices,
arguing that basic social power-structuring rules function to
transform brute power into an elaborate normative framework,
constituting authoritative institutions that are central to our
institutional reality.
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