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(2012) Rivista di estetica 49.
On the basis of a critique of the notion of collective intentionality employed by John Searle to explain social reality, the article argues Searle’s constitutive rule that, for social objects “X counts as Y in C” raises more problems than it solves. Searle was perfectly right to say that Derrida’s formula “there is nothing outside the text” is false. But we can vindicate (and emend) Derrida by saying “ there is nothing social outside the text”: social objects are identified with the inscrbed acts that give rise to them.
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Ferraris, M. (2012). Intenzionalità e documentalità. Rivista di estetica 49, pp. 161-182.
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