Title:
The construction of social reality / John R. Searle.
Author:
Searle, John R.
Publication Information:
New York : Free Press, c1995.
Call Number:
BD175 .S43 1995
Abstract:
"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.
Electronic Access:
O'Connell Notes (PDF)Entire Brian O'Connell Collection
Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780029280454.pdf
ISBN:
9780029280454
9780684831794
Physical 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.
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