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Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

Paperback • 2011 • English

Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

By John R. Searle

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About the book

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 lin...Show more

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9780199829521

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

Format

Paperback

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