| Description |
xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
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"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 |
| Analysis |
Philosophy of mind |
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Social epistemology |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and indexes |
| Subject |
Philosophy of mind.
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Social epistemology.
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| LC no. |
94041402 |
| ISBN |
0029280451 |
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0684831791 |
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9780029280454 |
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9780684831794 |
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