Social Reality Without Language
According to a popular view, the creation of social reality requires language: social institutions emerge when we successfully declare them into existence. Making language central to institutions deprives the non-human of any claim to a social reality. This is particularly problematic in the light...
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University of Vienna
2023-04-01
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| author | Pablo Fernández Velasco |
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According to a popular view, the creation of social reality requires language: social institutions emerge when we successfully declare them into existence. Making language central to institutions deprives the non-human of any claim to a social reality. This is particularly problematic in the light of mounting research showing many animals have social institutions even in the absence of language. In this paper, I will offer an alternative view. I will employ a concept –enacted representation– from the distributed cognition framework of cognitive science to develop a social ontology that does not take language as a requirement to create social institutions.
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| spelling | doaj.art-fe49715e90064ae7ac7aa9b82790d9202023-05-28T07:32:03ZengUniversity of ViennaJournal of Social Ontology2196-96632023-04-019110.25365/jso-2023-71119409Social Reality Without LanguagePablo Fernández Velasco According to a popular view, the creation of social reality requires language: social institutions emerge when we successfully declare them into existence. Making language central to institutions deprives the non-human of any claim to a social reality. This is particularly problematic in the light of mounting research showing many animals have social institutions even in the absence of language. In this paper, I will offer an alternative view. I will employ a concept –enacted representation– from the distributed cognition framework of cognitive science to develop a social ontology that does not take language as a requirement to create social institutions. https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/7111Social OntologyLanguageDistributed CognitionCultural Practices |
| spellingShingle | Pablo Fernández Velasco Social Reality Without Language Journal of Social Ontology Social Ontology Language Distributed Cognition Cultural Practices |
| title | Social Reality Without Language |
| title_full | Social Reality Without Language |
| title_fullStr | Social Reality Without Language |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Reality Without Language |
| title_short | Social Reality Without Language |
| title_sort | social reality without language |
| topic | Social Ontology Language Distributed Cognition Cultural Practices |
| url | https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/7111 |
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