Abstract
Declarations like this meeting is adjourned make certain facts the case by representing them as being the case. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the mechanism whereby the utterance of a declaration can bring about a new state of affairs. In this paper, we use the incentivization account of institutional facts to address this issue. We argue that declarations can serve to bring about new states of affairs as their utterance have game theoretical import, typically in virtue of the utterer signaling a commitment to act in an incentive-changing way.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 235-254 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2017 |
Keywords
- declarations
- institutions
- incentivization account
- Searle
- REALITY
- MONEY
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How to Do Things Without Words : A Theory of Declarations. / Smit, J. P.; Buekens, Filip.
In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 47, No. 3, 06.2017, p. 235-254.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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AU - Smit, J. P.
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PY - 2017/6
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AB - Declarations like this meeting is adjourned make certain facts the case by representing them as being the case. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the mechanism whereby the utterance of a declaration can bring about a new state of affairs. In this paper, we use the incentivization account of institutional facts to address this issue. We argue that declarations can serve to bring about new states of affairs as their utterance have game theoretical import, typically in virtue of the utterer signaling a commitment to act in an incentive-changing way.
KW - declarations
KW - institutions
KW - incentivization account
KW - Searle
KW - REALITY
KW - MONEY
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DO - 10.1177/0048393117697073
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JO - Philosophy of the Social Sciences
JF - Philosophy of the Social Sciences
SN - 0048-3931
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