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 Intentionality) examines the account
of collective intention and action underlying Searle s analysis of
social and institutional facts, with special emphasis on how that
account relates to the dispute between individualism and
anti-individualism in the analysis of social behaviour, and to the
opposition between internalism and externalism in the analysis of
intentionality. Part II (From Intentions to Institutions:
Development and Evolution) scrutinizes the ontogenetic and
phylogenetic credentials of Searle s view that, unlike other kinds
of social facts, institutional facts are uniquely human, and
develops original suggestions concerning their place in human
evolution and development. Part III (Aspects of Institutional
Reality) focuses on Searle s claim that institutional facts owe
their existence to the collective acceptance of constitutive rules
whose effect is the creation of deontic powers, and examines
central issues relevant to its assessment (among others, the status
of the distinction between regulative and constitutive rules, the
significance of the distinction between brute and deontic powers,
and the issue of the logical derivability of normative from
descriptive propositions, and the import of the difference between
moral and non-moral normative principles). Written by an
international team of philosophers and social scientists, the
essays aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of Searle s work
on the ontology of society, and to suggest new approaches to
fundamental questions in that research area."
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