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Institutional Objects, Reductionism and Theories of Persistence

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Summary, in English

Can institutional objects be identified with physical objects that have been ascribed status functions, as advocated by John Searle in The Construction of Social Reality (1995)? The paper argues that the prospects of this identification hinge on how objects persist – i.e. whether they endure, perdure or exdure through time. This important connection between reductive identification and mode of persistence has been largely ignored in the literature on social ontology thus far.

Department/s

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

525-562

Publication/Series

Dialectica

Volume

68

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Philosophy

Keywords

  • stage theory
  • reduction
  • persistence
  • perdurance
  • institutions
  • endurance
  • social ontology
  • Searle

Status

Published

Project

  • Social Ontology and Theories of Persistence

Research group

  • Metaphysics and Collectivity

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1746-8361