The Construction of Social Reality
'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
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'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
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The Building Blocks of Social Reality12Creating Institutional Facts313Language and Social Reality594The General Theory of Institutional Facts Part I: Iteration, Interaction, and Logical Structure795The General Theory of Institutional Facts Part II: Creation, Maintenance, and the Hierarchy1136Background Abilities and the Explanation of Social Phenomena1277Does the Real World Exist? Part I: Attacks on Realism1498Does the Real World Exist? Part II: Could There Be a Proof of External Realism?1779Truth and Correspondence199Conclusion227Endnotes229Name Index237Subject Index239
