There is a widespread sentiment that social objects such as nation-states, borders, and pieces of money are just figments of our collective imagination and not really ‘out there’ in the world. Call this the ‘antirealist intuition’. Eliminativist, reductive materialist, and immaterialist views of social objects can all make sense of the antirealist intuition, in one way or another. But these views face serious difficulties. A promising alternative view is nonreductive materialism. Yet it is unclear whether and how nonreductive materialists can make sense of the antirealist intuition. I develop a version of nonreductive materialism that is able to meet this explanatory demand. The central idea is that social objects are materially constituted, response-dependent objects. I go on to offer an independent argument in favor of this response-dependent view of social objects. I then suggest that a proponent of this view can appeal to the response-dependent nature of social objects to explain, or explain away, the antirealist intuition.

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社会客体、反应依赖和现实主义

人们普遍认为，民族国家、边界和金钱等社会对象只是我们集体想象的虚构，而不是真正“存在于”世界上。称之为“反现实主义直觉”。对社会对象的消除主义、还原唯物主义和非物质主义观点都可以以一种或另一种方式理解反现实主义的直觉。但这些观点面临严重困难。一个有希望的替代观点是非还原唯物主义。然而，尚不清楚非还原唯物主义者是否以及如何理解反实在论的直觉。我开发了一种能够满足这种解释性需求的非还原唯物主义版本。中心思想是社会客体是物质构成的、依赖于反应的客体。我继续提供一个独立的论点，支持这种依赖于反应的社会对象观点。然后我建议，这种观点的支持者可以诉诸社会对象的依赖于反应的性质来解释或解释反现实主义的直觉。