Human Persons as Social Entities

Bibliographic Data

ID2436447
AuthorsLynne Rudder Baker
Year2015
Volume1
Issue1
Pages77-87
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Ontology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2196-9663 • E-ISSN: 2196-9655
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/jso-2014-0037
OpenAlexW2144686329
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited2

The aim of this article is to show that human persons belong, ontologically, in social ontology. After setting out my views on ontology, I turn to persons and argue that they have first-person perspectives in two stages (rudimentary and robust) essentially. Then I argue that the robust stage of the first-person persective is social, in that it requires a language, and languages require linguistic communities. Then I extend the argument to cover the rudimentary stage of the first-person perspective as well. I conclude by enumerating ways in which human persons differ from nonhuman animals

Argument (complex analysis · Cover (algebra · Epistemology · Linguistics · Ontology · Perspective (graphical · Social ontology · Sociology · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Philosophy

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