John R. Searle

Philosophy in a New Century

Selected Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

John Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to three areas of philosophy: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of society. This volume gathers together in accessible form a selection of his essays in these areas, and will be valuable for all who are interested in Searle's work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780521731584
• ISBN-10: 0521731585
• Artikelnr.: 23882321

Autorenporträt

John Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent publications include Mind: A Brief Introduction (2004), Consciousness and Language (2002) and Rationality in Action (2001, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Philosophy in a new century
2. Social ontology: some basic principles
3. The Turing Test: 55 years later
4. Twenty-one years in the Chinese room
5. Is the brain a digital computer?
6. The phenomenological illusion
7. The self as a problem in philosophy and neurobiology
8. Why I am not a property dualist
9. Fact and value, 'is' and 'ought,' and reasons for action
10. The unity of the proposition.