Making the social world : the structure of human civilization /
John Searle offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality - a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox addressed is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | John Searle offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality - a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox addressed is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line begun in his 'The Construction of Social Reality', Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all 'institutional facts'. His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry & biology. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190267643 019026764X 0191573582 9780191573583 |