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Philosophy in a New Century: Selected Essays
John R. Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to three areas of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of society. This volume gathers together in accessible form a selection of his essays in these areas. They range widely across social ontology, where Searle presents concise and informative statements of positions developed in more detail elsewhere; artificial intelligence and cognitive science, where Searle assesses the current state of the debate and develops his most recent thoughts; and philosophy of language, where Searle connects ideas from various strands of his work in order to develop original answers to fundamental questions. There are also explorations of the limitations of phenomenological inquiry, the mind-body problem, and the nature and future of philosophy. This rich collection from one of America's leading contemporary philosophers will be valuable for all who are interested in these central philosophical questions.
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210 pages, Paperback
First published January 31, 2008
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John Rogers Searle
72 books359 followersJohn Rogers Searle (born July 31, 1932 in Denver, Colorado) is an American philosopher and was the Slusser Professor of Philosophy and Mills Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Language at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Widely noted for his contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and social philosophy, he was the first tenured professor to join the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. He received the Jean Nicod Prize in 2000, and the National Humanities Medal in 2004.
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June 29, 2024
A fairly recent collection of short and accessible essays by Searle on the various issues in philosophy that he has worked on over the years. This is probably the best way to begin to understand John Searle’s work.
February 5, 2020
Good articles that appeared in various journals all placed into one volume. My particular favorites are the papers on the why he isn't a property dualist and analytic philosophy in relation to phenomenology.
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