Searle on Human Rights

Social Epistemology 30 (4):440-463 (2016)
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This article is a critical philosophical assessment of John Searle’s theory of human rights as it is articulated both in his earlier book, The Construction of Social Reality and especially in his more recent book, Making the Social World.

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10.1080/02691728.2015.1119912

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J. Angelo Corlett
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Constitutive Justice and Human Rights.Rastko Jovanov & Marija Velinov - 2019 - Filozofija I Društvo 30 (4):478-492.

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Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind.John R. Searle - 1983 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Social Philosophy.Stephen Pink & Joel Feinberg - 1975 - Philosophical Review 84 (2):306.
The Moral Foundation of Rights.L. W. Sumner - 1989 - Philosophy 64 (247):120-122.

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