Social Construction of Mind

This book provides an original and provocative combination of ethnomethodological analysis and the concepts of linguistic philosophy with a breadth and clarity unusual in this field of writing. It is designed to be read by sociologists, psychologists and philosophers and concerns itself with the contributions of Wittgenstein, defending the claim for his relevance to the human sciences. However, this book goes some way beyond the usual limitations of such interdisciplinary works by outlining some empirical applications of ideas derived from the Wittgenstein tradition.

Inhalt
Introduction - The Normative Accountability of Human Action - Transparency of Mind: The Availability of Subjective Phenomenon - Deleting the Subject - Basic Experimental Expressions - Some Thoughts on Thinking - Phenomenological Residue - Affect and Social Context - The Metaphysics of Mental Illness - Concluding Remarks - Subject Index - Author Index