De Rerum Natura: Dragons of Obliviousness and the Science of Social Ontology

Turner, Mark B.

De Rerum Natura: Dragons of Obliviousness and the Science of Social Ontology

Mantzavinos, C., editor, 2009. Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pages 28-40

11 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2013

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Mark B. Turner

Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science

Date Written: June 2, 2007

Abstract

A response to John Searle's "Language and Social Ontology" in the section on "Basic Problems of Sociality." Outstanding human higher-order cognitive capacities arise together developmentally and evolutionarily. They support each other and labor together. Taking any of them for granted in analyzing how the others arose is an error. We should not take any of them as given when we attempt to analyze how any of the others came into being.

Keywords: social ontology, language, John Searle, deontology

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Turner, Mark B., De Rerum Natura: Dragons of Obliviousness and the Science of Social Ontology (June 2, 2007). Mantzavinos, C., editor, 2009. Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pages 28-40, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2317371