Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
Oxford University Press (2009)
| Abstract | The purpose of this book -- Intentionality -- Collective intentionality and the assignment of function -- Language as biological and social -- The general theory of institutions and institutional facts: -- Language and social reality -- Free will, rationality, and institutional facts -- Power : deontic, background, political, and other -- Human rights -- Concluding remarks : the ontological foundations of the social sciences. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Social sciences Philosophy Civilization Social epistemology | |||||||||
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| Call number | H61.S4475 2009 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780195396171 0195396170 | |||||||||
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Matti Sintonen, Petri Ylikoski & Kaarlo Miller (eds.) (2003). Realism in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Georges Benko & Ulf Strohmayer (eds.) (1997). Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity. Blackwell Publishers.
Anthony King (2006). Review Essay: High-Heeled Red Imitation-Crocodile Boots: The Future of the Social Sciences. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 36 (3):367-378.
John R. Searle (1991). Intentionalistic Explanations in the Social Sciences. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (3):332-344.
Molly Brigid Flynn (2012). A Realer Institutional Reality: Deepening Searle's (De)Ontology of Civilization. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 20 (1):43-67.
Frank Hindriks (2011). Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization, John R. Searle, Oxford University Press, 2010, 224 Pages. [REVIEW] Economics and Philosophy 27 (03):338-346.
Patrick Madigan (2011). Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization. By John R. Searle. Heythrop Journal 52 (1):173-174.
F. Hindriks (forthcoming). Restructuring Searle's Making the Social World. Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
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