TY  - BOOK
AU  - Searle,John R.
TI  - The construction of social reality
SN  - 9780140235906 (pbk.) :
U1  - 121 SEA 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Social epistemology
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
KW  - thema
KW  - Philosophy of language
KW  - Semiotics / semiology
N1  - Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Allen Lane, 1995; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -