This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all th

'John Searle has a distinctive intellectual style. It combines razor-sharp analysis with a swaggering chip-on-the-shoulder impudence that many of his opponents

There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and lang

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Ten original essays examine the central themes of John Searle’s ontology of society. Written by an international team of philosophers and social scientists, t