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Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
John Searle
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Description for Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
Paperback. The renowned philosopher John Searle investigates the nature of social reality. How do institutions such as money, marriage, and government arise from the mere power of words? And how do mind, language, reason, and freedom come into being from the mindless, meaningless particles that make up the physical universe? Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPM; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 346.
The renowned philosopher John Searle reveals the fundamental nature of social reality. What kinds of things are money, property, governments, nations, marriages, cocktail parties, and football games? Searle explains the key role played by language in the creation, constitution, and maintenance of social reality. We make statements about social facts that are completely objective, for example: Barack Obama is President of the United States, the piece of paper in my hand is a twenty-dollar bill, I got married in London, etc. And yet these facts only exist because we think they exist. How is it possible that we can ... Read more
The renowned philosopher John Searle reveals the fundamental nature of social reality. What kinds of things are money, property, governments, nations, marriages, cocktail parties, and football games? Searle explains the key role played by language in the creation, constitution, and maintenance of social reality. We make statements about social facts that are completely objective, for example: Barack Obama is President of the United States, the piece of paper in my hand is a twenty-dollar bill, I got married in London, etc. And yet these facts only exist because we think they exist. How is it possible that we can ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199695263
SKU
V9780199695263
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About John Searle
John Searle, Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the most eminent contemporary philosophers. Educated at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, he taught at Christ Church Oxford before moving to Berkeley, where he has been teaching since 1959. His eighteen published books include Speech Acts (1969), Expression and Meaning (1979), Intentionality (1983), The Rediscovery ... Read more
Reviews for Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
Review from previous edition stimulating and vigorous
Colin McGinn, New York Review of Books
Making the Social World is graced with a positive charm with which Searle confronts the cynicism if our time.
Tribune
may be recommended to newcomers to [Searle's] philosophy as a lively introductory overview of many of his current research themes and of ... Read more
Colin McGinn, New York Review of Books
Making the Social World is graced with a positive charm with which Searle confronts the cynicism if our time.
Tribune
may be recommended to newcomers to [Searle's] philosophy as a lively introductory overview of many of his current research themes and of ... Read more