Dewey’s Social Ontology: A Pragmatist Alternative to Searle’s Approach to Social Reality

Testa, Italo

doi:10.1080/09672559.2016.1260625

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“…That is, it is a fundamental phenomenon for which causal explanation is not required (Testa 2016). Moreover, given that transaction involves an exchange between organisms and their environment, individuals and their context, and the latter includes other organisms or individuals (social context), all human action is social action.…”

Section: Pragmatic Transaction and Habitsmentioning

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“…Specifically, transaction among organisms, i.e., group life, is referred to as 'conjoint action' (Dewey 1946). Conjoint action is also taken to be a primitive fact that cannot be reduced to individual action (Testa 2016). While composed of a multiplicity of acts or actions, conjoint action is distinct from any one of them and from their aggregation (e.g., marriage, a market exchange, an armed conflict, a lecture).…”

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Pragmatic behaviour: pragmatism as a philosophy for behavioural economics

Garcés

2022

Journal of Philosophical Economics

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Behavioral economics offers an account of actual human behavior. Contrasting with the conventional normative approach to rationality, rational choice theory, describes the deviations from optimal decision making. These are attributed to failures in two systems, one in charge of automatic behavior (System 1) and the other responsible for reflective one (System 2). As important as this is, an elaboration of the interaction between them seems to be lacking. Philosophical pragmatism can contribute to address this want. It provides an evolutionary explanation of how people act accounting for the continuity of behavior including habitual and reflective action. The former is captured by habits and the latter directed towards objects. Additionally, it proposes a dialogical self, consisting of an interaction between the 'I', denoting impulse, and the 'me', referring to reflective action. As such, pragmatism can provide fertile ground on which to cultivate behavioral insights.

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Section: Pragmatic Transaction and Habitsmentioning

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Section: Pragmatic Transaction and Habitsmentioning

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Pragmatic behaviour: pragmatism as a philosophy for behavioural economics

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2022

Journal of Philosophical Economics

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“…. And for every repeated performance, expectations are solidified and that threshold gets a little higher” (Brännmark 2019, 13; see also Testa 2017).…”

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Max Weber and Social Ontology

Rust

2021

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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Key elements of John Searle’s articulation of the Standard Model of Social Ontology can be found within Max Weber’s ideal type of legal-rational authority. However, the fact that, for Weber, legal-rational authority is just one of three types of legitimate authority, along with traditional and charismatic authority, suggests limitations to the Standard Model’s scope of applicability. Where Searle takes himself to have provided an account of “the structure of human civilization,” Weber’s taxonomy suggests that Searle has only given us an account of a way of being a civilization. This understanding of traditional authority also reveals why the Standard Model misconstrues the structure of ordinary, informal statuses, such as friendship.

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The Pragmatist Social Account of Democracy

Frega

2019

Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy

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Dewey’s Social Ontology: A Pragmatist Alternative to Searle’s Approach to Social Reality

Cited by 30 publications

References 15 publications

Pragmatic behaviour: pragmatism as a philosophy for behavioural economics

Pragmatic behaviour: pragmatism as a philosophy for behavioural economics

Max Weber and Social Ontology

The Pragmatist Social Account of Democracy

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