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Autori
Ferrario, Roberta
Bottazzi, Emanuele

Titolo
Oggetti sociali e prospettive
Periodico
Sistemi intelligenti
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 229 - Pagina finale: 256

This work is focused on the notion of social object, moving from some considerationson the same notion in Searle's account. We tried to show that his positionis somewhat problematic, especially with respect to his characterization of thenotion of social object intended as a token, in cases as «the five euro banknotein my hand» as opposed to types as «the five euro banknote». To cover this gapwe introduce the notion of perspectile. A perspectile is the objectual counterpartof what in Searle's ontology is lacking but necessary, the social object regardedas a token, that is the «X qua Y in C» in his famous count as formula. The term«perspectile» is to emphasize the fact that this object exists as something putinto perspective by an institutional definition in the very context of social interaction.We «see» the token through the rules we have established for it. Thisis meant to be a flexible and yet clear way of constructing entities by meansof a definition and a way of taking into account their peculiar identity criteria.Even though this may seem quite simple and intuitive, to properly analyze thisidea a big conceptual effort is required. Such analysis offers a different solutionto some criticisms raised against Searle and known as «the problem of freestanding Y terms», for example in cases as corporations or electronic money,where the application of his count as formula is controversial. Furthermore,we also draw some considerations about the relation between perspectiles anddifferent ontological views. Finally, we show the usefulness of the notion indisciplines such as cognitive science and knowledge representation.



SICI: 1120-9550(2013)2<229:OSEP>2.0.ZU;2-J
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