Searle, John R. <br/><br/>
The construction of social reality / 
John R. Searle. 
 - London :  Penguin,  1996. 
 - xiii, 241 p. ;  20 cm. 
 - Penguin philosophy .
<br/><br/> Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Allen Lane, 1995. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1.The building blocks of social reality -- 2.Creating instiutional facts -- 3.Language and social reality -- 4.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. 
<br/><br/> Searle examines those striking portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement - potent creations such as money, marriage, property and government that objectively exist only because we believe them to exist. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780140235906 (pbk.) :  £10.99 9780140235906 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social epistemology.<br/>Philosophy of mind.<br/>Philosophy.<br/>Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge<br/>Philosophy of language<br/>Semiotics / semiology
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>121 SEA