Che cosa socialmente c'è

Alberto Voltolini

pp. 377-389

in: A partire da Documentalità, Rivista di estetica 50, 2012.

Abstract

Maurizio Ferraris’ theory on social entities presents many interesting analogies with artefactualist theories on fictional entities. Like artefactualism, however, it probably needs some integration. As Ferraris himself acknowledges, mere dependence on subjects does not by itself qualify an entity as social. Moreover, the very same definition of a social entity as an inscribed (social) act seems to yield merely necessary, but not sufficient, identity conditions for such an entity. To my mind, what is needed is a normative element. For a social entity is an intrinsically normative entity, which is (inter alia) composed by something like Searle’s constitutive rules.

Cited authors

Ferraris Maurizio