ABSTRACT:
The article aims to analyze John Searle's realist social ontology through Foucault's archaeology of human sciences. The idea is to check if Searle's ontology can escape the doubles identified by Foucault in chapter 9 of 1966's "The Order of Things" (the empirical and transcendental, the cogito and the unthought and finally the retreat and return of origin). The conclusion is that Searle's naturalist-based social ontology cannot escape those doubles, suffering, therefore, from the same circularity which characterizes the human sciences. Finally, we present two possible research programs based on Searle's ontology which could possibly and adequately base his social ontology.
KEYWORDS:
Michel Foucault; John Searle; Social ontology; Archaeology of human sciences