Books written by John R. Searle

The Construction of Social Reality

This is a man who likes a good philosophical brawl.'New Scientist
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

Six lectures discuss the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, the workings of the brain, the mental aspect of human action, prediction of human behavior, and free will
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

2 A. Tarski, 'The semantic conception of truth', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol.4(1944); reprinted in H: Feigl and W. Sellars (eds.), Readings in Philosophical Analysis (New York, 1949). 3 “Exist” has to be construed ...
心灵导论/Mind

本书作者阐述了自由意志、心灵因果性的实际运作、无意识的本性与功能作用、对于感知的分析以及“自我”概念等话题。
心灵、语言和社会/实在世界中的哲学/二十世纪西方哲学译丛/Mind, Language and Society: 实在世界中的哲学

本书是一本简明通俗的、概括了塞尔40余年来研究成果的重要哲学著作,探讨了心灵、语言和社会实在的结构性特征和它们之间的逻辑依存关系。
Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception

This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience.
The Mystery of Consciousness

Only when we understand how the brain works will we solve the mystery of consciousness, and only then will we begin to understand issues ranging from artificial intelligence to our very nature as human beings.
The Rediscovery of the Mind

In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind.
The Construction of Social Reality

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 ...
Philosophy in a New Century: Selected Essays

This volume gathers together in accessible form a selection of his essays in these areas.
Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind

Intentionality provides the philosophical foundations for Searle's earlier works, Speech Acts and Expression and Meaning.
The Mystery of Consciousness

In what began as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books, Searle discusses the arguments of such well-known thinkers as Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett, Israel Rosenfield and David Chalmers.
The Mystery of Consciousness

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.
Consciousness and Language

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Seeing Things as They are: A Theory of Perception

consciousness does not exist.” But what they say is consciousness is really something else. In Daniel Dennett's case, he says it is really just a computer program running in the brain. And in John Campbell's case, he says conscious ...
Mind: A Brief Introduction

... ways of coping with the world, dispositions, and capacities generally that I collectively call the “Background. ... in the world and it will do this with one of the three directions of fit, mind-to-world, world-to-mind, or null.
Rationality in Action

In this invigorating 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.
The Construction of Social Reality

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 ...
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts

A direct successor to Searle's Speech Acts (C.U.P. 1969), Expression and Meaning refines earlier analyses and extends speech-act theory to new areas including indirect and figurative discourse, metaphor and fiction.
Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

"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.