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  3. John Searle
  • Cited by 27
  • Edited by Barry Smith, State University of New York, Buffalo
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2003
Online ISBN:
9780511613999
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613999
Subjects:
History of Philosophy, Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
Series:
Contemporary Philosophy in Focus
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Book description

From his groundbreaking book Speech Acts to his most recent studies of consciousness, freedom and rationality John Searle has been a dominant and highly influential figure amongst contemporary philosophers. This systematic introduction to the full range of Searle's work begins with the theory of speech acts and proceeds with expositions of Searle's writings on intentionality, consciousness and perception, as well as a careful presentation of the so-called Chinese Room argument. The volume considers Searle's recent work on social ontology and his views on the nature of law and obligation. It concludes with an appraisal of Searle's spirited defence of truth and scientific method in the face of the criticisms of Derrida and other postmodernists. This is the only comprehensive introduction to Searle's work, and as such it will be of particular value to advanced undergraduates, graduates and professionals in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive and computer science and literary theory.

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'… this is a detailed and relatively comprehensive introduction to one of the most prominent and diverse figures in contemporary philosophy. It would undoubtedly be of great value to undergraduate, and possibly graduate, students in philosophy or other disciplines who are unfamiliar with Searle's philosophy.'

Source: Philosophical Writings

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Contents

Contents
References
Further Reading
Further Reading
Selected Books by Searle
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969
The Campus War. New York: World, 1971; Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1972
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979
Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983
Minds, Brains and Science: The 1984 Reith Lectures. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1984, 1989; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985
The Rediscovery of the Mind. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992
The Construction of Social Reality. New York: The Free Press; Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1995
The Mystery of Consciousness. New York: New York Review of Books, 1997
Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World. New York: Basic Books, 1998
Rationality in Action. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001
Consciousness and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Selected Articles by Searle
“Proper Names.” Mind 67 (1958): 26–54
“Meaning and Speech Acts.” Philosophical Review 71 (October 1962): 423–32
“How to Derive ‘Ought’ from ‘Is’.” Philosophical Review 73 (January 1964): 43–58
“What Is a Speech Act?” In Max Black (ed.), Philosophy in America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1965, pp. 221–39
“Austin on Locutionary and Illocutionary Acts.” Philosophical Review 77: 4 (October 1968): 405–24
“A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts.” In Keith Gunderson (ed.), Language, Mind and Knowledge (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 7). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 1975: 344–69
“Literal Meaning.” Erkenntnis l3 (1978): 207–24
“What Is an Intentional State?” Mind 88: 349 (January 1979): 77–92
“Minds, Brains, and Programs.” The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1980)
“Indeterminacy, Empiricism, and the First Person.” The Journal of Philosophy 84: 3 (1987): 123–46
“How Performatives Work.” Linguistics and Philosophy 12 (1989): 535–58
“Collective Intentionality and Action.” In P. Cohen, J. Morgan, and M. E. Pollack (eds.), Intentions in Communication. Cambridge, Mass.: Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1991, pp. 53–70
Selected Commentary on Searle
Burkhardt, Armin. Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of John R. Searle. Berlin and New York: W. de Gruyter, 1990
Dietrich, Eric (ed.). Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons. San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, 1994
Faigenbaum, Gustavo. Conversations with John Searle. Libros En Red, 2001
Fotion, Nick. John Searle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000
Grewendorf, Günther, and Meggle, Georg (eds.). Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002
Hirstein, William. On Searle. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2001
Lepore, Ernest, and Gulick, Robert van (eds.). John Searle and His Critics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991
Koepsell, David (ed.). John Searle. Special issue of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 62, 2003
Meggle, Georg (ed.). Social Facts and Collective Intentionality. Frankfurt: Dr. Hänsel-Hohenhausen A. G., 2002
Meijers, Anthonie. Speech Acts, Communication and Collective Intentionality: Beyond Searle's Individualism. Leiden: Rijksuniversiteit, 1994
Parret, Herman, and Vershueren, Jef (eds.). (On) Searle on Conversation. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1992
Preston, John, and Bishop, Mark (eds.). Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
Searle. Special issue of the journal Revue Internationale de Philosophie, June 2001
Speech Act Theory: Ten Years Later. Special issue of the journal Versus, 26/27, 1980

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