Technical Function and Normativity

On Some Conceptual Difficulties of the Searlean Model

Authors

  • Diego Parente Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-831

Keywords:

artefact, technical function, Searle, normativity

Abstract

This paper critically explores the thesis exposed in John Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality about functional attribution, in order to determine some of his limitations in its application to scope of technical artefacts and their functionality. In order to clarify that problem, this article is divided into two parts. The first one offers a reconstruction of Searlean vocabulary and its emphasis in normativity. In the second part, some delicate elements of Searle’s theory are discussed and an alternative approach to function in technical objects is suggested.

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Author Biography

Diego Parente, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Investigador del CONICET.

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2010-09-30

How to Cite

Parente, D. (2010). Technical Function and Normativity: On Some Conceptual Difficulties of the Searlean Model. Revista Iberoamericana De Ciencia, Tecnología Y Sociedad - CTS (Ibero-American Science, Technology and Society Journal), 5(15), 219–230. https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-831

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Vol. 5 No. 15 (2010)

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