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Joshua Rust
John Searle is one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers. This book provides a critical review of Searle’s philosophical themes.
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John Searle is one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers. He has made significant contributions to the fields of the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind…
N. Fotion
One of the world’s important philosophers of mind and language, John Searle is direct, combative, and intellectually ambitious. This book explains Searle’s ideas, while also testing and exploring their implications…
Nicholas Fotion
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. This title offers an…
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A systematic introduction to the full range of Searle’s work.
Gustavo Faigenbaum
These interviews with John Searle arguably today’s most influential living analytic philosopher cover a wide scope. Among the topics discussed are: the Philosophy of Language, the Theory of Mind, and…
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John Searle es uno de los pensadores mas influyentes que ha conocido el siglo XX, y quizas sea el autor vivo mas importante de la filosofa-a anala-tica. La presente obra…
John Searle and His Critics proceeds from an analysis of the importance and influence of Searlea s seminal works to an overall assessment of Searlea s impact in the philosophy…
Not only discloses the institutional backdrop against which speech takes place, also initiates a ‘philosophy of society’. In locating The Construction of Social Reality, this book not only makes John…
John Searle
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
John Searl
Title: A funeral sermon delivered at Newbury-Port, Dec. 30, 1770: occasioned by the death of Mrs. Phebe Parsons, consort of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons, minister of the Presbyterian congregation there…
John Searles
The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling author of Help for the Haunted and Strange but True, a twisty psychological suspense novel following the intertwining fates of three people –
This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a five-pound note with all that implies in terms…
This novel moves in unexpected directions from a family drama into a kind of mystery/thriller when Melissa Moody, girlfriend to Ronnie Chase, who died five years earlier in a car…
‘A dazzling, dark portrait of a troubled family … frightening and beautiful.’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
Originally published: New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, c2001.
Discusses the possibility of free will within the context of contemporary neurobiology. This work argues that consciousness and rationality are crucial to our existence and that they are the result…
This is a volume of original essays on key aspects of John Searle’s philosophy of language. Written by a distinguished team of contemporary philosophers, and prefaced by an illuminating essay…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
John Searl (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Revelation a guide to reason, or, The word of God our supreme rule in religion: a sermon delivered at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Stephen Peabody, to the…
""A New and Improved Mode of Constructing Beehouses and Beehives: And the Management of the Same"" is a book written by John Searle in 1839. The book provides a comprehensive…
John Bryant and John Searle,John Searle
Explores how Christians can make balanced ethical decisions.
John Searle (University of California, Berkeley)
The renowned philosopher John Searle investigates the nature of social reality. How do institutions such as money, marriage, and government arise from the mere power of words? And how do…
Ten original essays examine the central themes of John Searle’s ontology of society. Written by an international team of philosophers and social scientists, the essays contribute to a deeper understanding…
John R. Searle - Thinking About the Real World
Lisa Mally
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Semiotik, Pragmatik, Semantik, Note: 1,7, Universitat Potsdam, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Pragmatik (griech. pragma = Handlung) befasst sich mit Sprachhandlungen. Sprachhandlungen…
Lisa Schiele
Zusammenfassung aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, Note: 1,3, Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Philosophisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Zur Ontologie sozialer Entitaten, Sprache: Deutsch…
Amichai Kronfeld
On scrutinising how we refer to things in conversation, we find that we rarely state explicitly what object we mean, although we expect an interlocutor to discern it. Dr Kronfield…
John R. Searle
In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind.
John E Searles
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
What started as a two-part essay in the New York Review of Books , this work discusses well-known thinkers, such as Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett, Israel…
Intentionality is taken to be the crucial mental phenomenon, and its analysis involves wide-ranging discussions of perception, action, causation, meaning, and reference. In all these areas John Searle has original…
Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, this 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.
Searle, containing Searle’s own latest views - including his seminal ideas on Rationality in Action. The collection provides a good basis for advanced seminar debates in philosophy of language, philosophy…
