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John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality

John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality

Rust, Joshua

Hardcover

Series: Continuum Studies in American Philosophy, Book 11

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0826485863
ISBN13: 9780826485861
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 25 2006
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
John Searle (1932-) is one of the most famous living American philosophers. A pupil of J. L. Austin at Oxford in the 1950s, he is currently Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1995 John Searle published The Construction of Social Reality, a text which not only promises to disclose the institutional backdrop against which speech takes place, but initiate a new 'philosophy of society'. Since then The Construction of Social Reality has been subject to a flurry of criticism. While many of Searle's interlocutors share the sense that the text marks an important breakthrough, he has time and again accused critics of misunderstanding his claims. Despite Searle's characteristic crispness and clarity there remains some confusion, among both philosophers and sociologists, regarding the significance of his proposals.

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