In this paper, I connect J.R. Searle’s concept of constitutive rules and H.L.A. Hart’s concept of internal point of view and look for an extension of this joint paradigm in institutional ontology. I make a distinction between five different perspectives about an institution—structural, teleological, axiological, strategic, and sociological—and connect these perspectives to three kinds of concepts: institutional, meta-institutional, and para-institutional. In the light of these distinctions, I submit that an explanation of institutional phenomena requires a three-dimensional ontology consisting of a structure (framed by constitutive rules), a conceptual background, and an actual practice. I then proceed by showing that this three-dimensional ontology makes it possible to specify Hart’s famous distinction between internal and external point of view (the latter being either moderate or extreme) into a more shaded distinction between six different approaches to an institution, exemplified by six different archetypical characters.

Corrado Roversi (2018). Constitutive Rules and the Internal Point of View. ARGUMENTA, 4, 139-156 [10.14275/2465-2334/20187.rov].

Constitutive Rules and the Internal Point of View

Corrado Roversi
2018

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In this paper, I connect J.R. Searle’s concept of constitutive rules and H.L.A. Hart’s concept of internal point of view and look for an extension of this joint paradigm in institutional ontology. I make a distinction between five different perspectives about an institution—structural, teleological, axiological, strategic, and sociological—and connect these perspectives to three kinds of concepts: institutional, meta-institutional, and para-institutional. In the light of these distinctions, I submit that an explanation of institutional phenomena requires a three-dimensional ontology consisting of a structure (framed by constitutive rules), a conceptual background, and an actual practice. I then proceed by showing that this three-dimensional ontology makes it possible to specify Hart’s famous distinction between internal and external point of view (the latter being either moderate or extreme) into a more shaded distinction between six different approaches to an institution, exemplified by six different archetypical characters.
2018
Corrado Roversi (2018). Constitutive Rules and the Internal Point of View. ARGUMENTA, 4, 139-156 [10.14275/2465-2334/20187.rov].
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