Situated institutions. From embodied cognition to social ontology 3800-SIEC24-S
Institutions structure people’s behavior, make various behaviors into patterns, and thereby enable people to achieve their goals. Standard examples of institutions include phenomena as diverse as marriage, traffic rules or private property. These can be written laws, e.g. patents and copyrights, as well as spontane¬ous behavioral patterns and social practices.
Two main theories of institutions prevail within the philosophical literature: rule-following and equilibrium theory, supplemented by various integrative or hybrid theories. All shall be covered by the seminar.
It will be argued, however, that the available theories of institutions fail in answering the question of where the goals to be achieved come from; that is to say – how a problem domain or action domain emerges. This is because the standard theories lack a more in-depth account of an agent, or subject, and the agent-environment bond. The seminar will tackle that issue and conceived of the agent as a specific system coupled with its surroundings.
The phenomena of structured or pattern-following behavior have also attracted scholars working in the field of situated/embodied/enactive cognition frequently referred to as 4E cognition. And since the latter has entered the domain of social philosophy quite boldly in recent years, it now becomes necessary to draw a conceptual link between social philosophy and 4E.
So, the seminar will try to re-define the problem of institutions based on certain insight coming from 4E. Specifically, the emergence of the problem domain in which an institution is created shall be problematized. The point would be that problem domains cannot be taken as given, and instead institutions may also have a say in these domains’ very coming into being.
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Efekty kształcenia
The student will be familiar with the contemporary philosophical literature on the nature of institutions, but also with some major works in the 4E paradigm in the philosophy of cognitive science, and how the latter is relevant to the former. On this basis the student shall be able to argue for and/or against the existing views, understand the significance of this debate for various real-life social problems, and formulate their own position in this respect.
The capacity to formulate a concise, comprehensive argument, based on evidence and conceptual analysis, and then to present this to the public in the form of a short talk.
The capacity for cooperation as part of a principled, argument-based discussion.
Kryteria oceniania
Credits will be based on a piece of written work or presentation in class.
Number of absences: 2
Literatura
Aoki, M. (2007). Endogenizing institutions and institutional changes. Journal of Institutional Economics, 3(1), 1–31.
Binmore, K. (2010). Game theory and institutions. Journal of Comparative Economics, 38, 245–252.
Chang, H. J. (2011). Institutions and economic development: Theory, policy and history. Journal of Insti¬tutional Economics, 7(4), 473–498.
De Jaegher, H., & Di Paolo, E. (2007). Participatory sense-making: An enactive approach to social cogni¬tion. Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, 6(4), 485–507.
De Jesus, P. (2015). Autopoietic enactivism, phenomenology and the deep continuity between life and mind. Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, 15, 265–289.
Gallagher, S., & Petracca, E. (2022). Trust as the glue of cognitive institutions, Philosophical Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2134767.
Guala, F., & Hindriks, F. (2015). A unified social ontology. Philosophical Quarterly, 65(259), 177–201.
Hedoin, C. (2017). Institutions, rule-following and game theory. Economics and Philosophy, 33, 43–72.
Werner, K. (2022). Institutions as cognitive niches. A dynamic of knowledge and ignorance. In S. Arfini, L. Magnani (Eds.), Embodied, extended, ignorant minds. New studies on the nature of not-knowing (pp. 161–190). Springer, Synthese Library).
Werner, K. (2023). Who asks questions and who benefits from answers: Understanding institutions in terms of Social Epistemic dependencies. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00732-0.
Werner, K. (2024) Enacted institutions, participatory sense-making and social norms. Synthese (2024) 203:152 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04569-0
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