Intentional Acts And Institutional Facts: Essays On John Searle's Social Ontology

INTENTIONAL ACTS AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTS ESSAYS ON JOHN SEARLE’S SOCIAL ONTOLOGY THEORY AND DECISION LIBRARY General Editor: Julian Nida-Rümelin (Munich) Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences Series B: Mathematical and Statistical Methods Series C: Game Theory, Mathematical Programming and Operations Research SERIES A: PHILOSOPHY AND METHODOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES VOLUME 41 Assistant Editor: Thomas Schmidt (Göttingen) Editorial Board: Raymond Boudon (Paris), Mario Bunge (Montréal), Isaac Levi (New York), Richard V. Mattessich (Vancouver), Bertrand Munier (Cachan), Amartya K. Sen (Cambridge), Brian Skyrms (Irvine), Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz) Scope: This series deals with the foundations, the general methodology and the criteria, goals and purpose of the social sciences. The emphasis in the Series A will be on well-argued, thoroughly analytical rather than advanced mathematical treatments. In this context, particular attention will be paid to game and decision theory and general philosophical topics from mathematics, psychology and economics, such as game theory, voting and welfare theory, with applications to political science, sociology, law and ethics. The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume. INTENTIONAL ACTS AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTS Essays on John Searle’s Social Ontology Edited by SAVAS L. TSOHATZIDIS Professor of General Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-4020-6103-5 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-6104-2 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2007 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. C ON TEN TS Contributors vii Introduction Savas L. Tsohatzidis 1 Social Ontology: The Problem and Steps toward a Solution John R. Searle PART I: 11 ASPECTS OF COLLECTIVE INTENTIONALITY Searle and Collective Intentions Margaret Gilbert 31 Foundations of Social Reality in Collective Intentional Behavior Kirk Ludwig 49 Joint Action: The Individual Strikes Back Seumas Miller 73 Collective Speech Acts Anthonie Meijers 93 PART II: FROM INTENTIONS TO INSTITUTIONS: DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION The Ontogeny of Social Ontology: Steps to Shared Intentionality and Status Functions Hannes Rakoczy and Michael Tomasello 113 Social Reality and Institutional Facts: Sociality Within and Without Intentionality Robert A. Wilson 139 v vi PART III: CONTENTS ASPECTS OF INSTITUTIONAL REALITY The Varieties of Normativity: An Essay on Social Ontology Leo Zaibert and Barry Smith 157 A Behavioural Critique of Searle’s Theory of Instituti