Making the Social World [electronic resource] : The Structure of Human Civilization
Searle, John.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2010.
There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies th
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Purpose of This Book; Appendix: Comparison between the General Theory of This Book and the Special Theory of the Construction of Social Reality; 2 Intentionality; 3 Collective Intentionality and the Assignment of Function; 4 Language as Biological and Social; 5 The General Theory of Institutions and Institutional Facts: Language and Social Reality; 6 Free Will, Rationality, and Institutional Facts; 7 Power: Deontic, Background, Political, and Other; 8 Human Rights; Appendix
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There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies th
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Civilization.
Social epistemology.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.