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The construction of social reality / John R. Searle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin philosophyPublication details: London : Penguin, 1996.Description: xiii, 241 p. ; 20 cmContent type:
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  • 9780140235906 (pbk.) :
  • 9780140235906
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121 SEA
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
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.

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