Jeremy Bentham’s Social Ontology: Fictionality, Factuality and Language Critique

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Philosophy of the Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI:10.1177/00483931221080999

B. Green

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Abstract

In terms of the distinction between relationalist and substantialist philosophies of science opened up by American pragmatist thinkers like Dewey and Bentley, Bentham’s social ontology is relationalist and anti-substantialist. When the ontology is combined with his emphasis on ordinary language as the basis of social reality, it is seen to have thematic connections to later developments in social science such as social constructionism, social phenomenology, ethnomethodology and, due to its intent to critically question-received fictions, to neo-Marxian and other concerns about objectivation and reification. Also, by re-reading Bentham’s theory of fictions as a theory of vernacular language habits, it can be shown to have empirical relevance for the sociology of language.

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边沁的社会本体论:虚构性、真实性与语言批判

从杜威、本特利等美国实用主义思想家对关系主义和实体主义科学哲学的区分来看，边沁的社会本体论是关系主义和反实体主义的。当本体论与他对作为社会现实基础的普通语言的强调相结合时，它被认为与社会科学的后期发展有着主题联系，如社会建构主义、社会现象学、民族方法论，并且由于其意图批判性地质疑接受的小说，与新马克思主义和其他关于物化和物化的关注有着主题的联系。此外，通过将边沁的小说理论重新解读为一种白话语言习惯理论，可以表明它与语言社会学具有经验相关性。

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