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John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality Joshua Rust
Publisher: Continuum

See also the RSA animated video on Steven Pinker's talk on The Stuff of Thought, from 7:44 on, as well as John Searle, The Construction of Social Reality, 1995, The Free Press, pp. A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge , (New York: Anchor, 1966), p. More on social reality: John Searle. 3 John Searle distinguished between “brute,” or observable facts (e.g., a mountain), and “social,” or intentional and institutional facts (e.g., an encyclopedia article). The substance of John Searle's most recent book, Making the Social World, is largely covered by the last chapter of his 2008 selection of essays, Philosophy in a New Century entitled "Social Ontology: Some Basic Principles" (see January 21, 2011 post). 4 For the mainstream, facts are created by interpretation because they need to be .. This is also the first move of Peter L. This has enormous significance for the construction of a social reality. Recently, I have been studying John Searle's philosophy of institutional facts. The Construction of Social Reality. New York: Free Press, 1995, pp. (derived from perception, intentional action, and/or memory). I refer the reader back to this . If this trend continues, we will have gems like: A white man invented gravity to keep the black man down. Berger and Thomas Luckmann in their path-breaking book, The Social Construction of Reality. John Searle, Making The Social World (2010). Searle says in "The Construction of Social Reality" to be useful even though some would say it is merely a sketch. If circular philosophical conversation ever needed the ultimate definition in a 228-page book, it could easily be the one I picked up this past week, The Construction of Social Reality by John R. I find that his philosophy answers many interesting The Construction of Social Reality by John Searle.