Making the Social World, or on Making our Everyday Life World

I will argue for three principal claims in Social Ontology. These three claims found the structure of the present issue of “Phenomenology and Mind” and represent three Leitmotive of the papers in it collected. A first claim on social world and everyday life world: (i) by making the social world, we make our everyday like world. A second and third claims on two essential feature characterising social entities: (ii) social entities existentially depend on the intentionality of individuals, and precisely on heterotropic intentionality of individuals (collective and social intentionality, intersubjective intentionality or social cognition); (iii) social entities are essentially normative entities, i.e. social entities are bearers of a deontology.