History’s Movement

The Historical Ontology in Social Ontology

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ID22012808
AuthorsBennett Gilbert (0000-0001-6288-2019, Portland State University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume28
Pages1-19
Publication date2025-08-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de Teoria da História (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2175-5892 • E-ISSN: 2175-5892
PublisherUniversidade Federal de Goias (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.5216/rth.v28i1.80494
OpenAlexW4413329647
LanguageEN
References cited26

Social ontology and the philosophy of history both concern themselves with human collectives. Social ontology is supposed to be theoretical, although the social sciences are supposed to be empirical. Philosophy of history is supposed to be theoretical, although historiography is supposed to be empirical. In fact, the a priori and the a posteriori mix in both theoretical and empirical endeavors in similar ways. Since the two endeavors hold part of their objects of inquiry in common, they should be able to speak to another. In what follows I aim to expose some of the ways their dialogue stresses and can nourish them both. Critical social ontology can enhance the moral purchase of social ontology. Re-conceiving ontology for social ontology must rely on developing an orientation toward diachronesis and history

Aesthetics · Art · Philosophy, History, and Historiography

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