Categories We Do Not Know We Live By

Journal of Social Ontology

article

Åsa Burman¹ 

[1] Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University

关键词: Conferralism;    Class;    Opaque kinds of social facts;    Ásta;    Muhammad Ali Khalidi;    Paradigmatic cases;   

DOI  :  10.1515/jso-2020-2006

来源: De Gruyter

【 摘 要 】

I argue that a central claim of Ásta’s conferralist framework – that it can account for all social properties of individuals – is false, by drawing attention to (opaque) class. I then discuss an implication of this objection; conferralism does not meet its own conditions of adequacy, such as providing a theory that helps to understand oppression. My diagnosis is that this objection points to a methodological problem: Ásta and other social ontologists have been fed on a “one-sided diet” of types of examples, resulting in a limited view of the paradigmatic social phenomena, thus making conferralism too narrow to fulfill its intended role.

【 授权许可】

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