Synthese 193 (11):3417-3427 (2016)
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This paper is about one of Arthur Prior’s earliest publications in philosophy, “The Nation and the Individual”. Its aims are to show that Prior made a remarkable contribution to social ontology in the 1930s which should be read with some attention to its historical background, which closely follows John Wisdom as to its theoretical elements, in particular the notion of a “logical construction”, but which is more clearly eliminativist with regard to nations and which is original in terms of rather bold ethical consequences; to interpret Prior’s/Wisdom’s proposal as a promise of reduction by translation and to connect Prior’s/Wisdom’s ideas with John Searle’s recent work on social ontology.
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Keywords | Arthur Prior Social ontology Logical construction Reduction Eliminativism John Wisdom John Searle Pacifism Nation |
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DOI | 10.1007/s11229-015-0901-3 |
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Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization.John Searle - 2010 - Oxford University Press UK.
The Construction of Social Reality: An Exchange.Barry Smith & John Searle - 2003 - American Journal of Economics and Sociology 62 (2):285-309.
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