Coordination as Naturalistic Social Ontology: Constraints and Explanation

Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1177/00483931221150486
Valerii Shevchenko
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In the paper, I propose a project of social coordination as naturalistic social ontology (CNSO) based on the rules-in-equilibria theory of social institutions (Guala and Hindriks 2015; Hindriks and Guala 2015). It takes coordination as the main ontological unit of the social, a mechanism homological across animals and humans, for both can handle coordination problems: in the forms of “animal conventions” and social institutions, respectively. On this account, institutions are correlated equilibria with normative force. However, if both humans and animals solve coordination problems in a similar way, and only humans have social institutions, how do the latter evolve? I suggest identifying possible causes of this evolution among cognitive capacities like mindreading and imitation by building dynamic models. Social ontology becomes constrained by the evolution of the forms of coordination and by the cognitive mechanisms involved in the emergence and persistence of social institutions. It means that it becomes bound to what might be derived from social institutions, i.e., social roles, structures and their derivatives. It shows how conceptual relations might emerge from causal. I conclude the paper with the discussion of the relationship between involved types of explanation, mechanistic and equilibrium ones.
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协调作为自然主义社会本体论:约束与解释
在本文中,我基于社会制度均衡理论中的规则,提出了一个作为自然主义社会本体论(CNSO)的社会协调项目(Guala和Hindriks 2015;Hindriks和Guala 2015)。它将协调作为社会的主要本体论单元,这是一种跨动物和人类的同源机制,因为两者都可以处理协调问题:分别以“动物公约”和社会制度的形式。因此,制度是与规范力量相关的均衡。然而,如果人类和动物都以相似的方式解决协调问题,而只有人类拥有社会制度,那么后者如何进化?我建议通过建立动态模型,在读心和模仿等认知能力中找出这种进化的可能原因。社会本体论受到协调形式的演变以及与社会制度的出现和持续有关的认知机制的约束。这意味着它与社会制度可能衍生的东西绑定在一起,即社会角色、结构及其衍生物。它展示了概念关系是如何从因果关系中产生的。最后,我讨论了相关解释类型、机制解释类型和平衡解释类型之间的关系。
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