The construction of social reality / John R. Searle.
Material type: TextSeries: Penguin philosophyPublication details: London : Penguin, 1996.Description: xiii, 241 p. ; 20 cmContent type:- 9780140235906 (pbk.) :
- 9780140235906
- 121 SEA
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 121 SEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 219044 |
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.
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.