books by John R. Searle

books by John R. Searle

books:

John R. Searle

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
John R. Searle

Cambridge University Press, 1970

Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.

Philosophy in a New Century: Selected Essays
John R. Searle

Cambridge University Press, 2008

John R. 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. They range widely across social ontology, where Searle presents concise and informative ...

Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

Charles E. McCulloch, Shayle R. Searle, ...

Wiley-Interscience, 2008

nice recent text on mixed models
This is a very recent and authoritative treatment of classical parametric models, starting with the general linear model and extending to generalized linear models, linear mixed models and finally to generalized linear mixed models. It also has applciations to ...

Consciousness and Language

John R. Searle

Cambridge University Press, 2002

A Superb Collection of Articles...
Searle has collected a large and important variety of articles in this text, which spans several years of thinking on issues such as: the nature of consciousness, free will, the mind-body problem, rationality, and collective action. Only one article on Kripke's ...

The Mystery of Consciousness

John R. Searle

New York Review Books, 1990

A gentleman reviews the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
John Searle believes consciousness is a result of the biological properties of the human brain. To quote him exactly: "biological brains have a remarkable biological capacity to produce experiences, and these experiences only exist when they are felt by some human or ...

Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge Paperback Library)

John R. Searle

Cambridge University Press, 1983

Excellent Modern Theory of Mind
P>In his usual manner, Searle tackles the problem of consciousness and how the mind works in this thorough examination of both classical and contemporary concerns. It's an exceedingly masterful task that is richly rewarding, if only slightly frustrating because of his ...

The Rediscovery of the Mind (Representation and Mind)

John R. Searle

The MIT Press, 1992

Excellent Highly-Accessible Polemic
What a wonderful book! I had tried to access philosophy of mind through David Chalmers and Roger Penrose to no avail. Talk about arcane and inane philosophy! Then, I decided I might try something "lighter." What a difference Searle's dense, but clear, ideas make! This ...

Mind: A Brief Introduction (Fundamentals of Philosophy)

John R. Searle

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Good Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
I used this book to teach a course in the philosophy of human nature and I loved it. Searle touts his brand of philosophy in this work called "biological naturalism." It is the view that all of our conscious states arise from neurobiological processes. The book is also ...

Mind, Language, and Society : Philosophy in the Real World

John R. Searle

Basic Books, 2000

Excellent and Unorthodox Introduction to Philosophy
I'd like to note, first of all, that I didn't find Searle as uncharitable as some of the other reviewers here. He did give a few low blows, but I think his arguments appeared as straw-man's because rather than refute a lot of the other claims, he was integrating them ...

The Construction of Social Reality

John R. Searle

Free Press, 1997

Searle: Primus Inter Pares
John Searle is a philosopher's philosopher. He's also scrupulously honest to a fault. When reading him, one never has to stop and wonder whether he really believes what he's saying. The present work, "The Construction of Social Reality" (CSR)" is no exception. ...

Rationality in Action (Jean Nicod Lectures)

John R. Searle

The MIT Press, 2003

Lucid and Stimulating
Searle's _Rationality in Action_ is lucid and accessible. The thrust of the book is to show that desire-independent reasons for action are commonplace (as opposed to the traditional or "Classical" model - Hume, Williams, Davidson, modern decision theory, etc. - that ...

The Philosophy of Language (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)

Oxford University Press, USA, 1971

Libertad Y Neurobiologia (Spanish Edition)
John R. Searle

Ediciones Paidos Iberica, 2005

Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts

John R. Searle

Cambridge University Press, 1985

Speech Act Theory
If your reading Jacques Derrida, esp. Limited Inc and Psyche this work along with Austin's How to do Things with Words are essential. These two books are the fundamental texts of Speech Act Theory. So if you want to find out about Locutions, Illocutionary Force and ...

Foundations of Illocutionary Logic
John R. Searle, Daniel Vanderveken

Cambridge University Press, 1985

This is a formal and systematic study of the logical foundations of speech act theory. The study of speech acts has been a flourishing branch of the philosophy of language and linguistics over the last two decades, and John Searle has of course himself made some of the most notable contributions to that study in the sequence of books Speech Acts ...