Making the Social World. Collective Intentionality, Social Ontology and Normativity

The present issue of “Phenomenology and Mind” is devoted to Searle's "Making the Social World". The issue deals with three topics of Searle's "Making the Social World": Social Ontology, Collective Intentionality and Normativity. The issue discusses these three topics and outlines some developments of these topics: (i) Social ontology: by making the social world, we make our everyday like world, i.e. social ontology is a "Metaphysics of our everyday life". (ii) Collective Intentionality: social entities existentially depend on the intentionality of individuals, and precisely not only on collective intentionality, but also on social and intersubjective intentionality (i.e. on what I call heterotropic intentionality of individuals). (iii) Normativity: social entities are essentially normative entities, i.e. social entities are bearers of a deontology.