W9: Social Constructivism and Looping Effect

what makes social reality collective intentionality casually effacious functions ontologically subjective

1. collective intentionality.

2. casually effacious functions

3. ontologically subjective

collective intentionality, rules, walk to lib

Collective Intentionality = Rules

X counts as Y in context C (walk to lib nect to X, walk to lib with X)

casually effacious fucntions, observer relative, red octagon

casually effacious fucntions

observer relative: Red Octagon = stop sign

ontologically subjective, collective agreemnt, epistemically objective

ontologically subjective (only exist on collective agreemnt)

epistemically objective (stop sign has these capabilities despite what people think.

Hackings what is socially constructed, authorship emotions.

authorship, but also emotions/ facts/ danger

Point of Social Constructivism, historical Contingency, X need not exist, X is bad, X should be changed

1. X need not have existed, X is not detemined by nature of things, it is not inevitable

2. X is bad as it is

3. we would be better off changing X.

Hacking women refugees

Applies to 1 2 and 3.

ideas and Matrices

idea of WR is formed in the Matrice of:

• insitutions

• lawyers

• advocates

• immigration policy

social constructivism, what we assume is inevtible.

We know LAWS are socially constructed.

SC is looking at what we assume is inevitable

Grades of contsructivism, historical, ironic, reforminist, unmasking, rebellious revolutionary

HIRURR

Historical

constructed through historical process

ironic

x could have been different but were stuck w it.

reformist

X should be modified to make it less harmful

unmasking

exposing Xs extra theortical function

rebellious

maintains 1 2 and 3 ab X

Revolutionary

wants to actively change X

Natural Kinds, real natural catagories, good science, carving at the joint

World is naturally divided into real natural catagories and GOOD science should find these.

Carving at the joint (WATER old —> H2O new)

Hacking human kinds, shapes how we understand people, suicide

Categorisation of types of people

shapes how we understand people.

Suicide

human vs natural kinds, intrinsic moral value

Human kinds are value-laden; they have an intricate moral value.

human kinds as interactive, change moral landscape, terrorist

using term TERRORIST has moral implications, changing the moral landscape

Palestine Action vs AlQaeda

human kinds as descriptive, new language more accurate

New human kinds rewrite history.

new language which describes this more accurately.

Hacking looping effect of human kinds, labelled, change, new knowledge, change

1. X labelled a kind, this changes how they act and the nature of a kind.

2. change means new knowledge about this kind.

3. this becomes a new part of kind so change again.

Looping effect example

calling a Quark a Quark doesnt change it.

calling an alchoholic an alchoholic does.

Looping effect and instability

instability in social sciences, which is absent in natural science.

second order kinds, X is normal.

normalcy is not a kind, it is only a kind that can be applied to X

Biologized kinds, moral becomes bio, alchoholic

moral aspects of kinds become biologized alchoholic

Inaccessable Kinds, infants

the kind cannot know their classification infants

Self ascriptive kinds, adopted

terms adopted by groups homosexual

social constructivisim and looping effect

1. X is taken for granted, appears inevitable

2. X is reconsidered, by X reacting to classification

3. reaction causes X to change and goes on.