Browsing by Author "Bingol, Sedat"

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Language and Society: A Controversy Between Searle and Bourdieu
(Wiley, 2025) Bingol, Sedat
My aim in this article is to establish a connection or bridge between philosophy of language and philosophy of society by showing the relationship between language and society within the framework of John Searle and Pierre Bourdieu's ideas. To this end, I discuss Searle's claim that it is language that creates social reality and, in a sense, human civilisation. I argue that his strong emphasis on the constitutive role of language actually demonstrates the relationship between language and society. In order to make this relationship more visible, I discuss Bourdieu's views on language and his criticisms of speech acts theory. Using these criticisms against Searle's claims, I offer a comprehensive analysis of the two thinkers' views on the relationship between language and society. Fundamentally, I try to strengthen the connection I plan to establish between philosophy of language and philosophy of society by analysing, evaluating and comparing both Searle's and Bourdieu's views on the relationship between language and society. By addressing these two thinkers together, I try to violate the distinctions and boundaries between these two thinkers as well as between problem areas and philosophical disciplines.
The Relationship of Promising as a Speech Act With Ethics and the Fact-Value Problem
(Beytulhikme Felsefe Cevresi, 2024) Bingol, Sedat
The aim of this paper is to show how value is derived from the fact through the example of promise and to reveal the relationship of this derivation with ethics. This aim will be achieved mainly through the answers of John Searle and Paul Ricoeur to the fact-value problem. Searle tries to solve the problem of whether value can be derived from facts, within the boundaries of the philosophy of language. Ricoeur, on the other hand, thinks that if this derivation is achieved, the problem is an ethics problem. In this paper, I will try to build a bridge between philosophy of language and ethics by presenting the views of Searle and Ricoeur. This effort to establish a connection has the intention of, in a sense, violating the boundaries and distinctions between the two fundamental disciplines of philosophy.