All socially constructed facts are social facts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4351315 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emilie Pagano (University of Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqaf056 |
| OpenAlex | W4412353692 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
Social metaphysicians agree that to be socially constructed is in some sense to depend on social goings-on. It's now common to claim that the relevant kind of dependence is grounding such that to be socially constructed is in some sense to be grounded in social goings-on. Nonetheless, grounding accounts of social construction are at risk of overgeneralizing, and, so, its's unclear what work grounding can and/or should do in accounting for it. In this paper, I argue that the simplest tweak to grounding accounts of social construction is also the best: we should insist that all socially constructed facts are social facts
Epistemology · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Making the Social World
What is a (social) structural explanation?
Guide to ground
Metaphysical Dependence
No Work for a Theory of Grounding
On What Grounds What
A Puzzle for Social Essences
Social constructs and how not to ground them
The Construction of Human Kinds
Social Structures and the Ontology of Social Groups
Why Truthmaking Is Not a Case of Grounding
Three Kinds of Social Kinds
Social Construction and Grounding
Anchoring as Grounding
What Social Construction Isn’t
Resisting Reality
Ground
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |