The Construction of Social Reality,9780684831794

The Construction of Social Reality

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ISBN13: 9780684831794
ISBN10: 0684831791
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-01-01
Publisher(s): Free Press
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Summary

In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle argues that there are two kinds of facts--some that are independent of human observers, and some that require human agreement.

Author Biography

John R. Searle is the Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his books are Speech Acts; Expression and Meaning; The Campus War; Intentionality; The Rediscovery of the Mind; and Minds, Brains and Science, based on his acclaimed series of Reith Lectures.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix(2)
Introduction xi
1. The Building Blocks of Social Reality
1(30)
2. Creating Institutional Facts
31(28)
3. Language and Social Reality
59(20)
4. The General Theory of Institutional Facts Part I: Iteration, Interaction, and Logical Structure
79(34)
5. The General Theory of Institutional Facts Part II: Creation, Maintenance, and the Hierarchy
113(14)
6. Background Abilities and the Explanation of Social Phenomena
127(22)
7. Does the Real World Exist? Part I: Attacks on Realism
149(28)
8. Does the Real World Exist? Part II: Could There Be a Proof of External Realism?
177(22)
9. Truth and Correspondence
199(28)
Conclusion 227(2)
Endnotes 229(8)
Name Index 237(2)
Subject Index 239

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