Promise, institutional reality and possibility of overcoming of skeptical argument in John Searl’s social ontology

The article views the solution of the Hume’s skeptical argument within framework of J. Searl’s social ontology. The main sources for consideration of this problem are J. Searle’s works: “Speech Acts. An Essay in the Philosophy of Language”, “How to Derive “Ought” from “Is”, “Freedom and Neurobiology. Reflections on Free Will, Language and Political Power”. The J. Searl’s theory of speech acts becomes a basis for creation of social ontology. Addition of the theory of speech acts with the consciousness theory allows J. Searle to approach a solution by means of introduction the concept of “constitutive rule”. Constitutive rules give a capability to establish the status functions for the situations, objects and individuals. But problem of the origin of the constitutive rule remains unsolved. Thus according to J. Searle from the descriptive statements we can derive the evaluative statements in the frame of the institutional facts, but we cannot come to idea of obligation. Regularity of using of the constitutive rules seems to be the weak argument.

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