Phenomenology and Mind

No. 2 (2012): Making the Social World: Social Ontology, Collective Intentionality, and Normativity
Session 3. Normativity and Language

Emergent Rules and Social Reality

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  • Gian Paolo Terravecchia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-19637

Published 2016-11-27

Keywords

  • constitutive rule,
  • regulative rule,
  • emergent rule

How to Cite

Terravecchia, G. P. (2016). Emergent Rules and Social Reality. Phenomenology and Mind, (2), 166–173. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-19637
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Abstract

The text presents and discusses John Searle’s taxonomy of rule, introducing a new type: the emergent rule. It also explains the importance of the emergent rule for the social reality. Searle thinks that the social reality is the outcome of a construction, but he is wrong. The emergent social reality is not constructed, nor can it be. To accept this leads to a drastic change in the theory and the paper tries to bring the reader to this new perspective within the fileld of social philosophy.

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