Workshop: The Construction of Social Reality: The Case of Land

这是一个挑战，以界定本体论的社会和制度的现实的框架内，公正的周围的物理环境的社会和它的机构。该奖项将支持关于土地，财产和社会本体的研讨会，这将促进我们对社会进程及其结果的知识和理解。它植根于这样一种思想，即土地转化为财产是一个基本的社会过程，迄今为止在社会科学中一直被忽视，土地和土地所有权在资本主义的建立和经济发展中发挥着至关重要的作用，特别是在欠发达国家。研讨会将汇集哲学家约翰·塞尔和经济学家埃尔南多·德索托与一个多学科小组的领先专家就这一主题，讨论当前的发展，我们的理解社会制度和经济发展的特定背景下的土地。Searle和De Soto最近都撰写了在学术界内外产生广泛影响的书籍。塞尔的《社会现实的建构》提出了一种理解人类社会及其制度的新方法，而德索托的《资本之谜：为什么资本主义在西方取得胜利而在其他地方失败》则引发了对土地、资本和发展的思考的一场小小革命。塞尔是一位国际知名的哲学家，他的作品在语言学、计算机科学和社会科学等学科也产生了相当大的影响。德索托是总部设在利马的自由与民主研究所所长。他是拉丁美洲和（目前）中东各国政府的顾问。虽然塞尔和德·索托是熟人，而德·索托的《资本之谜》本身也部分受到塞尔社会本体论思想的影响，但两人从未一起公开露面。本次研讨会将使这两位极具创造力的人聚集在一起，以提供一个公开的论坛，审查他们的观点对我们理解经济发展以及不同社会机构可能阻碍或促进这种发展的方式的影响。还邀请了其他专家就这些问题发表意见，并为通过塞尔和德索托的工作目前正在建立的新的社会本体论作出贡献。讲习班将就土地信息系统在较不发达国家建立有效的市场机构和促进经济和法律的权利方面的作用提供宝贵的观点。一个领域的本体的明确的正式帐户是信息管理系统的适当工具的关键基础，本次会议将有助于开发这样的本体的土地，地籍，和一般的财产法的领域。讲习班还将有助于发展地理范围内社会现实其他方面的本体论。为会议编写并在会上提出的文件汇编成册，将扩大该项目的影响。 来自多个学科的早期职业学者将直接受益于他们的参与。最后一天，将举行会议，确定该主题未来研究的优先事项。最后，该项目将努力促进在拉丁美洲和其他地方实际应用这些成果。

It is a challenge to define the ontology of social and institutional reality within a framework which does justice to the surrounding physical environment of society and its institutions. This award will support a workshop on land, property and social ontology that will advance our knowledge and understanding of social processes and their outcomes. It is rooted in the idea that the transformation of land into property is a fundamental social process that has been hitherto neglected in the sciences of society, and that land and land ownership play a vital role in the establishment of capitalism and in economic development, especially in less-developed countries. The workshop will bring philosopher John Searle and economist Hernando De Soto together with a multidisciplinary group of leading experts on the topic, to discuss current developments in our understanding of social institutions and economic development in the particular context of land. Searle and De Soto have both recently authored books that have had broad impact within and outside of academia. Searle's The Construction of Social Reality has advanced a new way of understanding human society and its institutions, while de Soto's The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else has caused a small revolution in thinking about land, capital, and development. Searle is an internationally prominent philosopher whose works have had considerable impact also in disciplines such as linguistics, computer science, and the social sciences. De Soto is President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy based in Lima. He works as a consultant to governments throughout Latin America and (currently) in the Middle East. While Searle and de Soto are personally acquainted, and while de Soto's Mystery of Capital was itself in part influenced by Searle's ideas on social ontology, the two have never appeared together in public. The present workshop will bring these two highly creative individuals together in such a way as to provide an open forum for examining the implications of their views for our understanding of economic development and of the ways in which different social institutions may hinder or facilitate such development. Additional experts have been invited to contribute their views on these questions and to develop contributions to the new social ontology which, through the work of Searle and de Soto, is currently in process of being established. The workshop will provide valuable perspectives on the role of land information systems in the establishment of working market institutions and in the nurturing of economic and legal rights in less developed countries. Explicit formal accounts of the ontology of a domain are a critical foundation for adequate tools for information management systems, and this meeting will contribute to the development of such an ontology for the domain of land, the cadaster, and property law in general. The workshop also will contribute to the development of an ontology of other aspects of social reality at geographic scales. An edited book consisting of papers prepared for and presented at the meeting will promote the broader impact of the project. Early career scholars from several disciplines will benefit directly from their participation. On the last day, there will be sessions to identify priorities for future research on the topic. Lastly, the project will make efforts to promote the practical application of the results in Latin America and elsewhere.