Social Ontology
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“A common family of arguments, inspired by Wittgenstein's famous remarks about games, has it that the phenomena of art are, by their nature, too diverse to admit of the unification that a satisfactory definition strives for, or that a... more
In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union when explicitly anti-capitalist movements have all but vanished from the contemporary political scene, along with the waning that followed soon after of Marxist theory as the prime source... more
Il volume raccoglie otto contributi di studiosi che si sono confrontati, in tempi diversi, con le ricerche di Amedeo G. Conte, nella prospettiva – a volte anche critica – di problematizzare e approfondire alcune sue intuizioni e le... more
“Power is war, the continuation of war by other means”: Foucault’s reversal of Clausewitz’s formula has become a staple of critical theory — but it remains highly problematic on a conceptual level. Elaborated during Foucault’s 1976... more
We live in an age of movement. More than at any other time in history , people and things move longer distances, more frequently, and faster than ever before. All that was solid melted into air long ago and is now in full circulation... more
Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism establishes a new basis for understanding the changing nature of polity and community and offers unprecedented attention to these dominant trends. The book charts the contradictions and tensions we all... more
Powerful historical artefacts vitalize their potential agencies in specific historical moments and cause fractures in our perspectives. In this thesis, I argue that objects' power can be examined by looking at their supernatural,... more
La tesi presenta inizialmente il pensiero di Jacques Derrida sull'animalità. Il tema affrontato è la sovranità dell'uomo sul resto dei viventi, in particolare nei riguardi della discriminazione dell'animalità. Nei capitoli a seguire si... more
In management research, theoretical abstractions, which are traditionally derived based on economic and individualist ontological assumptions, are limited in the ability to produce practically relevant insights and increase the divide... more
Face-coverings were widely mandated during the Covid-19 pandemic, on the assumption that they limit the spread of respiratory viruses and are therefore likely to save lives. I examine the following ethical dilemma: if the use of... more
Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC), particularly extractive close-domain question-answering, is a prominent field in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Given a question and a passage or set of passages, a machine must be able to extract... more
When people go shopping in real life, they enter a building. But the store cannot be identified with the building, because it would remain the same shop if it moved to another building or if it became an e-store. Daniel Korman [2019] uses... more
In this essay, I undertake a critical phenomenological exposition of the conditions of ethical community as they present themselves in light of the anthropocene. I begin by approaching the present human condition by following Arendt in... more
Starting from Karl Löwith’s Mitanthropologie, my paper aims to put forward a principle disappointability conceived as a “trust gradient” for the interhuman dimension. Löwith’s Mitanthropologie develops a taxonomy of the different binary... more
This paper offers two main contributions. On the one hand, it establishes a general formal framework for developing a foundational ontology of socially constructed entities, in the broadest sense of this notion; on the other hand, it... more
The nascent tenets of re-humanizing ontology should undergird student recruiting models. Re-humanizing ontology recognizes, emphasizes, and affirms the unique modes of being expressed by the dehumanized as they traverse the journey toward... more
This paper distinguishes between two main questions regarding the notion of privacy: “What is privacy?” and “Why do/should we value privacy?”. In developing a social-ontological recognitional model of privacy (SORM), it gives an answer to... more
In diesem Aufsatz wird untersucht, wie Tiernutzung und Fleischkonsum zu einer umstrittenen Praxis werden konnten. Erst eine Analyse der Genese dieser moralischen Problematisierung ermöglicht ein Verständnis der komplexen soziokulturellen... more
H. G. Gadamer’in, hermeneutiğe tanıdığı ontolojik öncelik, göstergebilimsel bir kültür ve toplumsallaşma analizini mümkün kılabilecek bir sosyal bilim metodolojisi için önemli bir başlangıç noktası teşkil etmektedir. “Ufuk kaynaşması”,... more
[published in Routledge's "Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences" series] This study starts from a simple premise: human practices are a fundamental constituent — arguably “the” fundamental constituent — of social reality. It... more
In the first part of my paper I recapitulate some main points of Searle’s theory of institutional facts, as stated in Chapters 1-6 of his book The Construction of Social Reality.1 First, I describe the puzzle that motivates the inquiry... more
Discrimination is a social phenomenon which seems to be widespread across different societies and cultures. Examples of discrimination concerning race, class, gender, and sexual orientation are not difficult to find in western... more
This article attempts to present the unity as well as the difference between Hegel's and Dewey's social philosophical approaches to struggles for recognition. It argues that interpreting Dewey's Lectures in China as a commentary on Hegel... more
Contemporary social scientists have detailed how the practice of systematically criminalizing black people has become administratively inseparable from the justification and management of the U.S. policing and penitentiary system. I argue... more
What means to be "with" ? ("être-avec"). La question de la communauté, de l'être-en-commun...
In dieser Arbeit werde ich mich auf und gegen der Theorie von Edith Stein über die kollektiven Identität anknüpfen, mit dem Versuch eine neue sozialontologische Theorie von der verschiedenen Gestalten des Gruppenidentität anzubieten. Ich... more
ASA-SHS est un projet de recherche financé par l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). Il porte sur la conception et le développement expérimental d'un environnement de travail pour une analyse sémantique riche de corpus audiovisuels... more
Kurumların norm sistemleri ya da norm-guided pratikler olduğu yönünde bir konsensüs bulunmaktadır. Bizzat bu konsensüsü tartışmaya açan çalışma, kurum tanımıyla ilişkilendirilen norm, işlev, güç, pratik, yapı gibi bir grup kavramı... more
A short overview of evolution of Lukács' concept of social ontology, from his early beginnings up to his death.
An edited version of the study is available in; Das 'Prinzip Störung' in den Geistes und Sozialwissenschaftebn Hrsg. von Carsten Gansel und Norman Ächtler Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur Hrsg. von Norbert... more
John Searle The Construction of Social Reality című könyvében a társadalom ontológiájának egy igen kidolgozott elméletét nyújtja. Elképzeléseit a legtöbben hagyományos metafizikai teóriaként értelmezik, Joshua Rust John Searle and The... more
It is becoming clear that we are living through a period in which our relationships to the basic conditions of existence are being fundamentally unsettled: fire, climate change, storms, and viruses are changing how we live. Songwriters,... more
The book Lezioni di deontica collects the lectures of the Philosophy of Law course held by Amedeo Giovanni Conte at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pavia in the academic year 1996-1997. Lezioni di deontica deal with central topics... more