Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Making the social world

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

913333201

Responsibility statement

John R. Searle

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

the structure of human civilization

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.--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

specialized

Creator