The Construction of Social Reality

John Searle (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1996
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-023590-6 (ISBN)

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This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.

John Searle is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 2002 and the National Humanities Medal in 2004.

The building blocks of social reality; creating institutional facts; language and social reality; the general theory of institutional facts part I - iteration, interaction, and logical structure; the general theory of institutional facts part II - creation, maintenance, and the hierarchy; background abilities and the explanation of social phenomena; does the real world exist? part I - attacks on realism; does the real world exist? part II - could there be a proof of external realism?; truth and correspondence.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.9.1996
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 197 mm
Gewicht	193 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-14-023590-6 / 0140235906
ISBN-13	978-0-14-023590-6 / 9780140235906
Zustand	Neuware