Making the social world: the structure of human civilization / John R. Searle
2011, 1st Paperback Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #355592
Physical description: xiv, 208 pages. Contents: 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. Subjects: Social sciences Philosophy.
Civilization. Social epistemology. Social sciences Philosophy.
Price: €14.95