Making the Social World : the Structure of Human Civilization.
There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he 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 he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies th. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (394 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
ISBN: | 9780199741809 0199741808 9780191573583 0191573582 9780195396171 0195396170 |