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John R. Searle, Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 208
Terravecchia, Gian Paolo
2011
Abstract
The paper presents and discusses the main results of Making the social world, the book published by John R. Searle in 2010. Social philosophy or, as the author prefers to say, «Philosophy of Society» is the main topic of the book. Sociality, claims Searle, is created and maintained by collective intentionality trough the speech act of Assignment of Function (“We make it the case by Declaration that the Y status function exists in contexts C”). The two final chapters apply the main ideas of the book to important topics, such as Power and Human Rights. This leads the discussion to the field of political philosophy. The final section of the paper presents some critics to the book.
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Gian Paolo Terravecchia, "John R. Searle, Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 208", in "APhEx 3", 2011, pp. 18
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