Searle, John (1932-)

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Abstract

During the last 50. years, John R. Searle has developed influential views on fundamental research areas within and beyond philosophy. This article mainly focuses on Searle's contributions to three fields of research. In the first section, John Searle's concept of a speech act is tackled. Topic of the second section is Searle's theory of mind and of intentionality. Finally, the third part addresses Searle's 'Philosophy of Society' (a discipline, which broadly covers what nowadays also falls under the name of 'social ontology').

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
PublisherElsevier Inc.
Pages340-345
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780080970875
ISBN (Print)9780080970868
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Mar 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • (Sentence and speaker's) meaning
  • Background
  • Chinese room
  • Collective intentionality
  • Constitutive rules
  • Deontic powers
  • Direction of fit
  • Functions
  • Institutional facts
  • Intentionality
  • Mind
  • Network
  • Rationality
  • Social facts
  • Speech acts

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