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

Part I: Extensions and Criticisms:.

2. Searle, Rationality, and Social Reality: Alex Viskovatoff, University of Pittsburgh.

3. Searle and Collective Intentionality: The Self-Defeating Nature of Internalism with Respect to Social Facts: Dan Fitzpatrick, University of Hertfordshire.

4. Rationality-in-Relations: Hans Bernhard Schmid, University of St. Gallen.

Part II. Criticisms and Reconstructions:.

5. Searle’s Foole: How a Constructionist Account of Society Cannot Substitute for a Causal One: Mariam Thalos, University of Utah.

6. Collective Acceptance, Social Institutions, and Social Reality: Raimo Tuomela, University of Helsinki.

7. Can Collective Intentionality Be Individiualized? Anthonie W. M. Meijers, Eindhoven University.

8. The New Role of the Constitutive Rule: Frank A. Hindriks, University of St. Andrews.

9. Collective Intentions and Collective Intentionality: L. A. Zaibert, University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

10. Searle’s Monadological Construction of Social Reality: Ingvar Johansson, Umea University.

11. Explaining Collective Intentionality: Nenad Miscevic, University of Maribor.

12. The Social Ontology of Virtual Environments: Philip Brey, University of Twente.

Part III. An Illuminating Exchange:.

13. The Construction of Social Reality: An Exchange: Barry Smith and John Searle, University of Buffalo and University of California-Berkeley.

Index.