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Social Ontology and Social Cognition

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The aim of this paper is to show that there is a reciprocal dependency relationship between social cognition and social ontology. It is argued that, on the one hand, the existence conditions of socially meaningful objects and of social groups are about subjects’ social cognitive processes and interactive patterns and, on the other hand, social cognitive processes and interactive patterns are modulated by socially meaningful objects and social groups. I proceed from a historically informed distinction between social ontologies – between what might be called constructivist and emergentist theories of social reality. I then distinguish three theories of social cognition, theory-theory, simulation theory, and interaction theory, and argue that the first distinction and the latter map onto each other. Finally I argue that the reciprocal dependency between social ontology and social cognition can be justifiably though of as causal in Di Paolo et. al.’s (2010) sense of “downward” or “circular” causation.

It is concluded that the dependency between social ontology and social cognition pertain to both a methodological and a phenomenal level. First, research on social ontology depends on research on social cognition; and, secondly, social phenomena, involving socially meaningful objects and groups, influence social cognitive processes and interaction, which in turn influence social phenomena.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

5-17

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Abstracta: Linguagem, Mente e Ação

Volym

7

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Düsseldorf University Press

Ämne

  • Philosophy

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Understanding rules: Cognitive and noncognitive models of social cognition (ESF/VR)
  • Metaphysics and Collectivity

Forskningsgrupp

  • Metaphysics and Collectivity
  • CogComlab

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1807-9792