Making the social world : the structure of human civilization / John R. Searle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Searle, John R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Social epistemology.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages)

Other Title:

Structure of human civilization

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2010]

Summary:

There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he 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 he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies th

Contents:

The purpose of this book

Intentionality

Collective intentionality and the assignment of function

Language as biological and social

The general theory of institutions and institutional facts : language and social reality

Free will, rationality, and institutional facts

Power : deontic, background, political, and other

Human rights

Concluding remarks : the ontological foundations of the social sciences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-026764-X

0-19-974180-8

OCLC:

727645711