Understanding Social Institutions without Language?:On the Debate between Searle and Tuomela's Collective Acceptance Theory
Under the tradition of analytic philosophy,the discussion of collective intentionality about social institutions is one of the important topics of social ontology which as the branch of metaphysics,which is in the ascendant in the field of contemporary philosophy of social science.Searle and Tuomela's Col-lective Acceptance Theory both explain the creation and maintenance of social institutions basing on collective acceptance which is one of the modes of collec-tive intentionality.Tuomela criticizes.Searle's Collective Acceptance Theory for its lack of explanation of nonlinguistic action and he attempts to eliminate the ontological status of language in explaining social institutions.In fact,language is the foundation for understanding social institutions,language and action are inseparable.The Collective Acceptance Theory of Searle and Tuomela are not contradictory and complementary to each other in a certain sense.
social ontologycollective acceptancesocial institutionslanguagenonlinguistic action
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