Intenzionalità vs. testualismo debole

Raffaela Giovagnoli

pp. 91-100

in: A partire da Documentalità, Rivista di estetica 50, 2012.

Abstract

The original and thoughtful book of Maurizio Ferraris Documentalità. Perché è necessario lasciar tracce introduces a form of “weak textualism” to explain the constitution of social objects. I’ll briefly present some basic points of Ferraris’ account to establish a comparison with John Searle’s classical notion of “collective intentionality”. Ferraris addresses interesting criticisms to the so called “naive realism” characterizing Searle’s philosophical enterprise. Nevertheless, I think that “weak textualism” represents a partial analysis of the constitution of social reality that requires rather the consideration of the relationship between intentionality and communication.

Cited authors

Searle John

Ferraris Maurizio