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John Searle (Hardcover)
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John Searle (Hardcover)
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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'.
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