John Searle's Ideas About Social Reality

John R. Searle's 1995 publication The Construction of Social Reality is the foundation of this collection of scholarly papers examining Searle's philosophical theories. The book works to reconstruct the ontology of the social sciences through an analysis of linguistic practices in the context of John Searle's celebrated work on intentionality. The authors provide rich and varied critical appraisals of Searle's original text. Reconstructs the ontology of the social sciences through an analysis of linguistic practices in the context of John Searle's celebrated work on intentionality Authors provide rich and varied critical appraisals of Searle's original text.

David Koepsell is an attorney with a special research interest in the problems of modern philosophy. His research focuses on the intersection between the philosophy of mind and action, and moral and political theory. He teaches courses at the University of Buffalo in New York.

Laurence S. Moss now serves as editor of The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. He is a Professor of Economics at Babson College and has served as the President of the History of Economics Society. He is also a well-known historian of economic thought. Moss is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and now serves on the Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Editors' Introduction

1

(7)

David Koepsell

Laurence S. Moss

PART I: EXTENSIONS AND CRITICISMS

Searle, Rationality, and Social Reality

7

(38)

Alex Viskovatoff

Searle and Collective Intentionality: The Self-Defeating Nature of Internalism with Respect to Social Facts

45

(22)

Dan Fitzpatrick

Rationality-in-Relation

67

(38)

Hans Bernbard Schmid

PART II. CRITICISMS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS

Searle's Foole: How a Constructionist Account of Society Cannot Substitute for a Causal One

105

(18)

Mariam Thalos

Collective Acceptance, Social Institutions, and Social Reality

123

(44)

Raimo Tuomela

Can Collective Intentionality Be Individualized?

167

(18)

Anthonie W. M. Meijers

The New Role of the Constitutive Rule

185

(24)

Frank A. Hindriks

Collective Intentions and Collective Intentionality

209

(24)

L. A. Zaibert

Searle's Monadological Construction of Social Reality

233

(24)

Ingvar Johansson

Explaining Collective Intentionality

257

(12)

Nenad Miscevic

The Social Ontology of Virtual Environments

269

(16)

Philip Brey

PART III. AN ILLUMINATING EXCHANGE

The Construction of Social Reality: An Exchange

285

(26)

Barry Smith

John Searle

Index

311

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John Searle's Ideas About Social Reality Extensions, Criticisms, and Reconstructions

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