Mind, Language and Society
by Searle, John RFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-12-10
Publisher(s): Hachette Book Group USA
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Summary
Philosophy
Author Biography
John R. Searle was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1932. He attended the University of Wisconsin from 1949 to 1952 and studied at Oxford University, where he received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. Phil and was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught as a lecturer in philosophy at Christ Church in Oxford from 1956 to 1959 and since then has been a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also been a visiting professor at many universities, both in the US and abroad, including the universities of Syracuse, Rutgers, Colorado, SUNY Buffalo, Washington, Michigan, Venice, Florence, Frankfurt, Toronto, Campinas (Brazil), Oslo, Berlin, and Oxford.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Basic Metaphysics: Reality and Truth | p. 1 |
| The Enlightenment Vision: Reality and Its Intelligibility | p. 1 |
| Introducing Philosophy | p. 7 |
| The Default Positions | p. 9 |
| Reality and Truth: The Default Position | p. 12 |
| Four Challenges to Realism | p. 20 |
| Skepticism, Knowledge, and Reality | p. 27 |
| Is There Any Justification for External Realism? | p. 31 |
| Beyond Atheism | p. 33 |
| How We Fit into the Universe: The Mind as a Biological Phenomenon | p. 39 |
| Three Features of Consciousness | p. 39 |
| A Clash of Default Positions: The Mind-Body Problem | p. 45 |
| The Irreducibility of Consciousness | p. 55 |
| The Danger of Epiphenomenalism | p. 57 |
| The Function of Consciousness | p. 62 |
| Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causation | p. 64 |
| The Essence of the Mind: Consciousness and Its Structure | p. 67 |
| Three Mistakes About Consciousness | p. 69 |
| Structural Features of Consciousness | p. 73 |
| The Field of Consciousness and the Binding Problem | p. 80 |
| Consciousness and Value | p. 83 |
| How the Mind Works: Intentionality | p. 85 |
| Consciousness and Intentionality | p. 86 |
| Naturalizing Intentionality: Another Clash of Default Positions | p. 89 |
| Intentionality Naturalized as a Biological Phenomenon | p. 95 |
| The Structure of Intentional States | p. 99 |
| Intentional Causation | p. 104 |
| The Background of Intentionality | p. 107 |
| The Structure of the Social Universe: How the Mind Creates an Objective Social Reality | p. 111 |
| Social and Institutional Reality | p. 112 |
| Observer-Dependency and the Building Blocks of Social Reality | p. 116 |
| A Simple Model of the Construction of Institutional Reality | p. 124 |
| The Example of Money | p. 126 |
| How Institutional Reality Can Be So Powerful | p. 128 |
| Solutions to the Problem and the Puzzles | p. 131 |
| How Language Works: Speech as a Kind of Human Action | p. 135 |
| Speech Acts: Illocutionary Acts and Perlocutionary Acts | p. 136 |
| The Meanings of "Meaning," | p. 139 |
| Meaning and Communication | p. 144 |
| Various Types of Speech Acts | p. 146 |
| Constitutive Rules and Symbolism | p. 152 |
| Notes | p. 163 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 167 |
| Subject Index | p. 171 |
| Name Index | p. 175 |
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