Making the Social World : the Structure of Human Civilization.

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Searle, John [Author]

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online resource

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9780199741809
9780191573583

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Electronic Books.

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H61 .M355 2010

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Subject: 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; 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; Concluding Remarks: The Ontological Foundations of the Social Sciences; Subject Index; Name Index; Footnotes.

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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