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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...
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John Searle is the Slusser Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley. His eighteen books include Mind, Speech Acts, Intentionality and The Construction of Social Reality.
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"stimulating and vigorous" --Colin McGinn, New York Review of Books
"Searle's latest book is more than recommendable." --Economics and Philosophy
"The present [book] may be recommended to newcomers to [Searle's] philosophy as a lively introductory overview of many of his current research themes and of some of his past research achievements." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"wonderfully clear and wonderfully ambitious" --American Journal of Sociology
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2011
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- ISBN 13 9780199829521
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