The Construction of Social RealitySimon and Schuster, 1995 - 241 pagine 'John Searle has a distinctive intellectual style. It combines razor-sharp analysis with a swaggering chip-on-the-shoulder impudence that many of his opponents might find intolerably abrasive were it not for the good humour that pervades all he writes. This is a man who likes a good philosophical brawl.'New Scientist |
Sommario
The Building Blocks of Social Reality | 1 |
Creating Institutional Facts | 31 |
Language and Social Reality | 59 |
4 The General Theory of Institutional Facts | 79 |
Explanation of Social Phenomena | 127 |
Does the Real World Exist? | 177 |
Truth and Correspondence | 199 |
Conclusion | 227 |
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