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The Construction of Social Reality
- Title
- The Construction of Social Reality / John R. Searle.
- Author
- Searle, John R.
- Publication
- New York : Free Press, [1995]
- ©1995
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- Description
- xiii, 241 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. --Goodreads.com.
- "John Searle has a distinctive intellectual style. It combines razor-sharp analysis with a swaggering chip-on-the-shoulder impudence that many of his opponents might find intolerably abrasive were it not for the good humour that pervades all he writes. This is a man who likes a good philosophical brawl."--New Scientist.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. The Building Blocks of Social Reality -- 2. Creating Institutional Facts -- 3. Language and Social Reality -- 4. The General Theory of Institutional Facts Part I: Iteration, Interaction, and Logical Structure -- 5. The General Theory of Institutional Facts Part II: Creation, Maintenance, and the Hierarchy -- 6. Background Abilities and the Explanation of Social Phenomena -- 7. Does the Real World Exist? Part I: Attacks on Realism -- 8. Does the Real World Exist? Part II: Could There Be a Proof of External Realism? -- 9. Truth and Correspondence.
- ISBN
- 0029280451
- 9780029280454
- 0684831791
- 9780684831794
- LCCN
- 94041402
- 99981438301
- OCLC
- ocm31411549
- 31411549
- SCSB-3232944
- Owning Institutions
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