Exploring Ontology of Tourism: A New-Realist Approach
本文提出一种基于新实在论的旅游本体论，利用塞尔的社会本体论和生物自然主义概念，回答旅游现实的本质、构成实体及其特征，为社会科学提供一种对抗相对主义的基础框架。
The aim of this paper is to propose a new-realist ontology of tourism; an ontology that could be used as a foundation for those social sciences which are ready to accept the moderate realist approach. To achieve this goal, an answer to the general question is sought: What is the nature of the tourism reality? This has been broken down into specific issues: What entities make up the domain of tourism? How are they formed and how do they exist in the world? What are their features? And finally: What are the epistemic consequences of the adopted solutions? Our answers are embedded in Searle’s social ontology and his concepts of biological naturalism and social Background. The proposed tourism ontology will also be able to serve as a competitive option to relativist approaches that seem to be gaining the upper hand in the current debate about the state of tourism research.