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The Rediscovery of the Mind

John R. Searle
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Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 292 pages
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Release : 1992-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262261138

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In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results in so much barrenness and sterility in psychology, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science: there can be no study of mind that leaves out consciousness. What is going on in the brain is neurophysiological processes and consciousness and nothing more—no rule following, no mental information processing or mental models, no language of thought, and no universal grammar. Mental events are themselves features of the brain, "like liquidity is a feature of water." Beginning with a spirited discussion of what's wrong with the philosophy of mind, Searle characterizes and refutes the philosophical tradition of materialism. But he does not embrace dualism. All these "isms" are mistaken, he insists. Once you start counting types of substance you are on the wrong track, whether you stop at one or two. In four chapters that constitute the heart of his argument, Searle elaborates a theory of consciousness and its relation to our overall scientific world view and to unconscious mental phenomena. He concludes with a criticism of cognitive science and a proposal for an approach to studying the mind that emphasizes the centrality of consciousness to any account of mental functioning. In his characteristically direct style, punctuated with persuasive examples, Searle identifies the very terminology of the field as the main source of truth. He observes that it is a mistake to suppose that the ontology of the mental is objective and to suppose that the methodology of a science of the mind must concern itself only with objectively observable behavior; that it is also a mistake to suppose that we know of the existence of mental phenomena in others only by observing their behavior; that behavior or causal relations to behavior are not essential to the existence of mental phenomena; and that it is inconsistent with what we know about the universe and our place in it to suppose that everything is knowable by us.

John R. Searle

Dirk Franken,Attila Karakus,Michel, Jan G. Michel
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Author : Dirk Franken,Attila Karakus,Michel, Jan G. Michel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110326185

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John R. Searle by Dirk Franken,Attila Karakus,Michel, Jan G. Michel Pdf

John R. Searle is one of the world's leading philosophers. During his long and outstanding career, he has made groundbreaking and lasting contributions to the philosophy of language, to the philosophy of mind, as well as to the nature, structure, and functioning of social reality. This volume documents the 13th Münster Lectures on Philosophy with John R. Searle. It includes not only 11 critical papers on Searle’s philosophy and Searle's replies to the papers, but also an original article by John R. Searle on his overall philosophical enterprise entitled "The Basic Reality and the Human Reality". "I think Münster is probably unique among contemporary universities in its ability to produce such a high level of philosophical production from their philosophy students." - John R. Searle

Seeing Things as They are

John R. Searle
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Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199385157

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This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the objective field. Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction between different levels of perception from the basic level to the higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the experience. The account applies not just to language possessing human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.

Mind, Language And Society

John R Searle
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Author : John R Searle
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780786723874

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Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any confidence. John Searle brings these notions down from their abstract heights to the terra firma of real-world understanding, so that those with no knowledge of philosophy can understand how these principles play out in our everyday lives. The author stresses that there is a real world out there to deal with, and condemns the belief that the reality of our world is dependent on our perception of it.

The Mystery of Consciousness

John R. Searle,Daniel Clement Dennett,David John Chalmers
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Author : John R. Searle,Daniel Clement Dennett,David John Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 1862070741

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The Mystery of Consciousness by John R. Searle,Daniel Clement Dennett,David John Chalmers Pdf

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 Rosenfeld and David Chalmers.

Freedom and Neurobiology

John R. Searle
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Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780231137522

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"In the second half of the book, Searle applies his theory of social reality to the problem of political power, explaining the role of language in the formation of our political reality. The institutional structures that organize, empower, and regulate our lives - money, property, marriage, government - consist in the assignment and collective acceptance of certain statuses to objects and people. Whether it is the president of the United States, a twenty-dollar bill, or private property, these entities perform functions as determined by their status in our institutional reality. Searle focuses on the political powers that exist within these systems of status functions and the way in which language constitutes them."--BOOK JACKET.

Making the Social World

John Searle
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Author : John Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199745862

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There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. Searle explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. These institutions serve to create and distribute power relations that are pervasive and often invisible. These power relations motivate human actions in a way that provides the glue that holds human civilization together. Searle then applies the account to show how it relates to human rationality, the freedom of the will, the nature of political power and the existence of universal human rights. In the course of his explication, he asks whether robots can have institutions, why the threat of force so often lies behind institutions, and he denies that there can be such a thing as a "state of nature" for language-using human beings.

The Construction of Social Reality

John R. Searle
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Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781439108369

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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 of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit.

Consciousness and Language

John R. Searle
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Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521597447

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Speech Acts

John R. Searle
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Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1969-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052109626X

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Speech Acts by John R. Searle Pdf

'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.'--Philosophical Quarterly

Minds, Brains and Science

John R. Searle
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Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674267213

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Minds, Brains and Science takes up just the problems that perplex people, and it does what good philosophy always does: it dispels the illusion caused by the specious collision of truths. How do we reconcile common sense and science? John Searle argues vigorously that the truths of common sense and the truths of science are both right and that the only question is how to fit them together. Searle explains how we can reconcile an intuitive view of ourselves as conscious, free, rational agents with a universe that science tells us consists of mindless physical particles. He briskly and lucidly sets out his arguments against the familiar positions in the philosophy of mind, and details the consequences of his ideas for the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, questions of action and free will, and the philosophy of the social sciences.

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Barry Smith,Barry C. Smith
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Author : Barry Smith,Barry C. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521797047

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John Searle by Barry Smith,Barry C. Smith Pdf

This is the only systematic introduction to the full range of Searle's work.

John Searle

Joshua Rust
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Author : Joshua Rust
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826497512

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John Searle by Joshua Rust Pdf

This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to his work and thought, ideal for students coming to his philosophy for the first time.

John Searle

Joshua Rust
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Author : Joshua Rust
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826497529

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John Searle by Joshua Rust Pdf

This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to his work and thought, ideal for students coming to his philosophy for the first time.

John Searle

Nicholas Fotion
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Author : Nicholas Fotion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317490166

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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'.