Search results for " Searle"

Intenzionalità collettiva, ontologia sociale e mindreading

2014

In his Collective Intentions and Actions John Searle argued that having a preintentional sense of others as at least potentially cooperative agents “like me” is a necessary condition of collective intentionality. He also argued, in Rationality in Action, that understanding others qua intentional agents necessarily presupposes rationality because rational constraints are built into the logical structure of intentional phenomena. In this paper we will try to specify further these claims in the light of current debate on mindreading, where other-understanding is spelled out either in terms of automatic, subpersonal simulative mechanisms, or in terms of normative, rational principles. We will a…

The Role of Searle's Constitutive Rules for the Rational Criticizability of Institutional Reality

2013

My hypothesis is that we can derive the normative conditions that institutions and institutional acts have to meet in order to be rationally acceptable/recognizable from the logical structure of institutional reality. Developing Searle's achievements on the constitutive role of speech acts in the construction of institutional reality and on their character of institutional acts, I'll show that the same types of constitutive rules underlying illocutionary acts also underlie institutional reality. I’ll then argue that we can derive a specific set of normative criteria for the rational criticizability of institutional acts from these constitutive rules in the same way that we can derive normat…

Antropologia del denaro. Linguaggio, valore e ontologia sociale.

2014

Mente e Corpo: aspetti filosofici e scientifici

2005

Vincoli universali del linguaggio e impegni deontici nella costruzione della realtà sociale

2009

Riflessioni e traiettorie di ricerca interdisciplinari sulla transizione digitale

2022

The contribution introduces the topic covered by vol. 12 of AGATHÓN through essays, studies, research and projects on Innovability©® | Digital Transition to investigate the current widespread transformation that unites dichotomies (analogue and digital), enhances oxymorons (artificial intelligence), creates paradoxes (materiality of the intangible), while indiscriminately involving architecture, humanities and social sciences, anthropology, sociology, ecology, biology, physical-mathematical sciences and neurosciences, with impacts that – while already visible today and accelerated in part by the extraordinary global health emergency – will become even more evident in the medium and long ter…

Institutions and Deontic Powers: Some Comments on the Tuomela-Searle Debate

In this talk I will analyze Tuomela’s theory of institutions and the most recent debate with Searle over the issue of whether institutions conceptually involve the creation and distribution of deontic powers. By way of analyzing Tuomela and Searle’s reciprocal criticisms, I conclude that Tuomela does not give us sufficient reasons to give up Searle’s thesis that institutions always involve deontic powers, but I also argue that it is necessary to go beyond Searle’s recent speech act-centered explanation of human sociality. More specifically, moving along the lines of Di Lorenzo’s view of constitutive rules as built into the logical and pragmatic structure of human activities, and making use …

Perception, Normativity and Action in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

Working on the background of a view of mind as “in action”, as pragmatically shaped by its own dynamic interactions with the world, emerging from the achievements of contemporary philosophy of mind (from Searle to enactivism)and cognitive science (from Gibson to Goodale and Milner)I aim to propose a view of perception as a form of human activity of which we are responsible, and in which our “commitment” to truth and rationality can take place. Against some recent phenomenalist and antirepresentationalist views of perception I'll try to show that the action-oriented character of perception does not challenge its rational constraint to a right representation of the state of affairs which it i…

Le strategie di scuse, uno studio pragmatico cross-culturale fra l’arabo libico e l’italiano

2021

La mia ricerca si colloca nell’ambito della pragmatica contrastiva, un campo di ricerca il cui obiettivo è quello di mettere a confronto due lingue differenti in relazione alle strutture e alle forme che due lingue diverse usano nel medesimo contesto d’uso; le differenze fra queste realizzazioni linguistiche sono spiegate attraverso differenze di tipo culturale. I partecipanti allo studio rappresentano due gruppi di parlanti: nativi italiani e nativi arabi. La raccolta dei dati è stata effettuata mediante la compilazione di un sondaggio scritto di tipo DCT (Discourse Completion Test). In concreto, sono state elaborate 10 situazioni comunicative atte a generare nel parlante la sollecitazione…

Incorporazione non riduttiva ed autoreferenzialità causale. Note per una concezione realista del sé nella teoria della coscienza di Antonio Damasio e…

2008

La critica al sostanzialismo ed al solipsismo cartesiani e l'elaborazione di una concezione naturalista ed antisostanzialista della mente hanno storicamente comportato, da David hume al funzionalismo ed alle scienze cognitive contemporanee, l'affermarsi di un atteggiamento eliminativista nei confronti del sè quale si dà ad esempio nella "narrative view" di Daniel Dennett e nella teoria della mente estesa di David Chalmers ed Andy Clark. Scopo di questo saggio è argomentare che la connessione essenziale tra mente e individualità può sopravvivere alla crisi del paradigma cartesiano mediante una rilettura del sè come processo causalmente reale e biologicamente incorporato quale si evince dalla…