caa a22 4500 463161297 CHVBK 20180406164748.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10746-007-9049-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10746-007-9049-6 Sociologizing metaphysics and mind: A pragmatist point of view on the methodology of the social sciences [Elektronische Daten] [Osmo Kivinen, Tero Piiroinen] There are realist philosophers and social scientists who believe in the indispensability of social ontology. However, we argue that certain pragmatist outlines for inquiry open more fruitful roads to empirical research than such ontologizing perspectives. The pragmatist conceptual tools in a Darwinian vein—concepts like action, habit, coping and community—are in a particularly stark contrast with, for instance, the Searlean and Chomskian metaphysics of human being. In particular, we bring Searle's realist philosophy of society and mind under critical survey in this paper and contrast it with a pragmatist, sociologizing approach. Drawing from Dewey, James, and recent antirepresentationalism, we propose for research work a methodological relationalism of its own kind, altogether detached from the ontologies of society and mind. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Methodological relationalism nationallicence Ontology nationallicence Pragmatism nationallicence Realism nationallicence Sociology of mind nationallicence Kivinen Osmo Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, RUSE, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland aut Piiroinen Tero Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, RUSE, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland aut Human Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 30/2(2007-06-01), 97-114 0163-8548 30:2<97 2007 30 10746 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9049-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9049-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kivinen Osmo Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, RUSE, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Piiroinen Tero Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, RUSE, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 30/2(2007-06-01), 97-114 0163-8548 30:2<97 2007 30 10746 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer