John Searle / Joshua Rust.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rust, Joshua.

Series:

Continuum contemporary American thinkers.

Continuum contemporary American thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Searle, John R.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Searle is one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers working today. He has made significant contributions to the fields of the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. This concise and accessible book provides a critical review of Searle's philosophical themes. While Searle began his career as a philosopher of language, this book proceeds thematically, starting with a review of Searle's general ontological commitments. His conception of the mental is then located within that general framework. A theory of intentionality sets the stage for Searle's accounts o

Contents:

Fundamental ontology : external realism and scientific naturalism

Consciousness and materialist theories of mind

Intentional mental states

Reason and action

From acts to speech acts : the intention to communicate

From sounds to words : the intention to represent

On the meaning of meaning : critical remarks

The construction of social reality

Topics concerning institutional reality : reasons, language, politics, and the background.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-170) and index.

ISBN:

9786612874963

9781282874961

1282874969

9781441153876

144115387X

OCLC:

676695813