Función técnica y normatividad: Acerca de algunas dificultades conceptuales del modelo searleano

this paper critically explores the thesis exposed in john searle's the construction of social reality about functional attribution, in order to determine some of his limitations in its application to scope of technical artefacts and their functionality. in order to clarify that problem, this article is divided into two parts. the first one offers a reconstruction of searlean vocabulary and its emphasis in normativity. in the second part, some delicate elements of searle's theory are discussed and an alternative approach to function in technical objects is suggested.