The Construction of Social Reality

Title
  1. The Construction of Social Reality / John R. Searle.
Published by
  1. New York : Free Press, [1995]
  2. ©1995
Author
  1. Searle, John R.

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Description
  1. xiii, 241 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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.
  2. "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
  1. Social epistemology
  2. Philosophy of mind
  3. Épistémologie sociale
  4. Philosophie de l'esprit
  5. Kennistheorie
  6. Sociale werkelijkheid
  7. Erkenntnistheorie
  8. Philosophie
  9. Soziale Wirklichkeit
  10. Sozialer Tatbestand
  11. Filosofia contemporanea
  12. Epistemología social
  13. Philosophy of mind
  14. Social epistemology
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and indexes.