John Searle
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act
acts
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Assertive Speech Acts
Attention Deficit Syndrome
Author_Nicholas Fotion
Background Presumptions
Basic Speech Act
Basic Speech Act Type
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cognitive science
Collective Intentionality
Constitutive Rules
Describing Speech Activity
epistemology theories
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Illocutionary Act
Illocutionary Effect
intentional
intentionality in mental states
language and consciousness
Literal Speech
materialism critique
philosophy of mind
Preparatory Conditions
Searle 1991b
Searle 1995a
Searle's Account
Searle's Taxonomy
Searle's Terminology
Searle's Theory
searles
Searle’s Account
Searle’s Taxonomy
Searle’s Terminology
Sincerity Condition
social ontology
Speaker Meaning
speech
Speech Act
Speech Act Level
Speech Act Type
Speech Activity Setting
states
theory
Violate
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- ISBN 9781902683096
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Direct, combative and wide-ranging, John Searle's philosophy has made fundamental and lasting contributions to thinking in language, mind, knowledge, truth and the nature of social reality. His account of language based on speech-acts, that mind is intentional, and the Chinese Room Argument, are just some of his most famous contributions to philosophical thinking. In this - the first introduction to John Searle's philosophy - Nick Fotion provides clear and assured exposition of Searles' ideas, while also testing and exploring their implications. The book begins by examining Searle's work on the philosophy of language: his analysis of speech acts such as promising, his taxonomy of speech acts and the wider range of indirect speech acts and metaphorical uses of language. The book then moves on to cover the philosophy of mind and outlines Searle's ideas on international states. It introduces his notions of 'background' and 'network', his claims for the often unrecognized importance of consciousness, and examines his attacks on other philosophical accounts of mind, such as materialism, functionalism and strong AI. The final section examines Searle's later work on the construction of social reality and concludes with more general reflections on Searle's position vis-a-vis ontology, epistemology, scepticism and the doctrine of 'external realism'.
Nick Fotion is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, Atlanta.
