Institutions as dispositions
Searle, Smith and the metaphysics of blind chess
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michaël Bauwens (0000-0002-2647-3012, Institute of Philosophy KU Leuven – University of Leuven Belgium, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 254-272 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12161 |
| OpenAlex | W2789278889 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper addresses the question what the fundamental nature and mode of being of institutional reality is. Besides the recent debate with Tony Lawson, Barry Smith is also one of the relatively few authors to have explicitly challenged John Searle's social ontology on this metaphysical question, with Smith's realism requirement for institutions conflicting with Searle's requirement of a one‐world naturalism. This paper proposes that an account of institutions as powers or dispositions is not only congenial to Searle's general account, but can also satisfy both the realism and the one world requirements. Searle's worry that such a dispositional account is unable to account for the deontic nature of institutions is countered by an appeal to higher‐order powers as well as Searle's notion of the gap and desire‐independent reasons for action
Action (physics · Appeal · Deontic logic · Economics · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Naturalism · Order (exchange · Political science · Realism · Sociology · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Making the Social World
Potentiality
Quantum Mind and Social Science
Getting Causes from Powers
What Are Institutions?
Are There Social Objects?
Overpowering
Rationality in Action
Developing the incentivized action view of institutional reality
Powers, Non‐Consent and Freedom
Over Socialising the Social World(s)
Response to Tony Lawson
Structure, institution, agency, habit, and reflexive deliberation
Ontology and Social Relations
Some Critical Issues in Social Ontology
Comparing Conceptions of Social Ontology
Institutions and Social Structures 1
A Framework for Social Ontology
The Limits of Emergence
Integrating institutional, relational and embodied structure
An Illuminating Exchange The Construction of Social Reality
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |