Money, Social Ontology and Law

ISBN-13: 9780367671792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 80 str.

Angela Condello; Maurizio Ferraris; John Rogers Searle

Opis

Presenting legal and philosophical essays on money, this book explores the conditions according to which an object like a piece of paper, or an electronic signal, has come to be seen as having a value.

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION (by A. Condello)

1. Why a Book on Money?

2. Why This Book on Money?

3. Money, Social Ontology and Law

CHAPTER I

Money: Ontology and Deception (by J.R. Searle)

1. The Functions of Money and the Definition of Money　 　 　 　 　 　　

2. Social ontology

3. Status functions are created by declaration

4. Money is Always a Status Function

5. Further Forms of Deception and Money

6. Money and Deception, a Summary

7. What is Money?

CHAPTER II

The Color of Money (by M. Ferraris)

0. Introduction: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg

1. Epistemology

1.1. Analysis

1.2. Manifest Image

1.3. Deep Structure

1.4. Pentecost or Emergence

2. Ontology

2.1. Dialectic

2.2. Necessary Condition

2.3. Sufficient Condition

2.4. Power and Form

3. Technology

3.1. Competence without Understanding

3.2. Iteration

3.3. The Mystic Foundation of Authority

CHAPTER III

Socio-legal Reality in the Making. Money as a Paradigm (by A. Condello)

1. A Basic Social Institution

2. Overview on Searle’s and Ferraris’ Theories of Money

3. Social Reality and Law: Cross-Breeding Intentionality with Documentality

3.1 The Symbolic Socio-legal Object for Searle: Money as Status Function

3.2 Tracing Socio-Legal Reality: Maurizio Ferraris’ Documentality

4. Broadening the Field: from Money to Legal Reality

4.1 Res, pecunia, lis

5. Conclusion. Socio-Legal Reality in the Making

　

CONCLUSION (by A. Condello)

1. Means of Exchange

2. Money (as Law) is a Social Technology

　

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

　

O autorze

Angela Condello , University of Torino

Maurizio Ferraris , University of Torino

John Rogers Searle , University of California, Berkeley