Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

by John Rogers Searle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195396170
• ISBN13: 9780195396171
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"