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Organisation, Emergence and Cambridge Social Ontology

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: John Searle has mistakenly claimed that emergence is the central concept in the account of social ontology defended by Tony Lawson, the central figure in the project now regularly referred to as Cambridge Social Ontology. This is not the case. Rather, if any concept can be considered central for Lawson, it is organisation. In this paper, I explain how Searle could misunderstand Lawson and, in doing so, I bring out the importance of organisation for understanding how phenomena, both social and non‐social, are constituted.

Source: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12251

Author: Yannick Slade‐Caffarel

Institution: King's College London

Language: English

Topic: Critical Realism in Sociology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,900

OpenAlex ID: W3082815751

FWCI: 4.43

Cites: 70

Cited by: 23

Related to: 10