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Searle, John R.

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Works: 334 works in 932 publications in 22 languages and 26,628 library holdings
Roles: Compiler, Interviewee, Editor, Other, Dedicatee, Speaker
Classifications: bd418.3, 128.2
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12 editions published between and 2008 in English and Chinese and held by 1,655 libraries worldwide
"John Searle offers here a direct and open discussion of philosophy, one that skewers accepted wisdom even as it offers striking new insights into the nature of consciousness and the mind."--BOOK JACKET.
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36 editions published between and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 1,411 libraries worldwide
Ce livre, conçu comme une suite de conférences pour la BBC, rattache l'examen des problèmes philosophiques traditionnels à la recherche actuelle en neurophysiologie, en intelligence artificielle et en science cognitive, dans l'espoir que les sciences du cerveau accroîtront la compréhension que l'homme a de lui-même.
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67 editions published between and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,369 libraries worldwide
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24 editions published between and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 1,320 libraries worldwide
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, in the same way that 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 phenomena, 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 proposes an approach to the study of mind that emphasizes the centrality of consciousness. In his characteristically direct style, punctuated with persuasive examples, Searle identifies the vary terminology of the field as a main source of trouble. He observes that it is a mistake to suppose that the ontology of the mental is objective and 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.
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26 editions published between and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 1,115 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1,041 libraries worldwide
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33 editions published between and 2004 in English and French and held by 1,039 libraries worldwide
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15 editions published between and 2001 in English and Chinese and held by 919 libraries worldwide
"Mind, Language and Society is a succinct, easy-to-follow account of a series of absolutely central philosophical problems, a proposal for their solution, and an account of how they relate to each other and to the real world."--BOOK JACKET.
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32 editions published between and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 903 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published between and 2004 in English and held by 883 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 682 libraries worldwide
"John Searle 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 exist only 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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15 editions published between and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 675 libraries worldwide
"In Freedom and Neurobiology, the philosopher John Searle discusses the possibility of free will within the context of contemporary neurobiology. He begins by explaining the relationship between human reality and the more fundamental reality as described by physics and chemistry. Then he proposes a neurobiological resolution to the problem by demonstrating how various conceptions of free will have different consequences for the neurobiology of consciousness." "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."--Jacket.
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9 editions published between and 2003 in English and held by 624 libraries worldwide
The study of rationality and practical reason, or rationality in action, has been central to Western intellectual culture. In this book, John Searle lays out six claims of what he calls the Classical Model of rationality and shows why they are false. He then presents an alternative theory of the role of rationality in thought and action.
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8 editions published between and 2005 in English and Turkish and held by 587 libraries worldwide
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17 editions published between and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 525 libraries worldwide
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13 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 415 libraries worldwide
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7 editions published between and 1972 in English and held by 410 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published in in English and held by 339 libraries worldwide
This collection of essays spans nearly two decades and covers all three areas of Searle's main philosophical interest.
 
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Mind : a brief introduction
Alternative Names
Rogers-Searle, John 1932-
Searle, J. R.
Searle, J. R. (John R.)
Searle, John.
Searle, John 1932-
Searle, John R.
Searle, John Rogers.
Searle, John Rogers, 1932-
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English (618)
German (108)
French (61)
Spanish (57)
Italian (25)
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Japanese (15)
Chinese (12)
Turkish (7)
Portuguese (6)
Dutch (4)
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