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John Rogers Searle (American English pronunciation: / s ɜːr l /; born July 31, 1932) [4] is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy.
John Searle. Searle denies Cartesian dualism, the idea that the mind is a separate kind of substance to the body, as this contradicts our entire understanding of physics, and unlike Descartes, he does not bring God into the problem. Indeed, Searle denies any kind of dualism, the traditional alternative to monism, claiming the distinction is a ...
John Searle developed Anscombe's concept of brute facts into what he called brute physical facts—such as that snow is on Mt. Everest—as opposed to social or institutional facts, dependent for their existence on human agreement. [6]
Closer to Truth is a television series on public television [1] originally created, produced, and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn.The original series aired in 2000 for two seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season.
The Searle–Derrida debate is a famous intellectual controversy opposing John Searle and Jacques Derrida, after Derrida responded to J. L. Austin's theory of the illocutionary act in his 1972 paper "Signature Event Context".
John Hick, Arguments for the Existence of God, London: Macmillan; Alasdair MacIntyre, Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (first edition), Harvard University Press; John Searle (ed.), The Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press
John Searle's 1990 paper, "Collective Intentions and Actions" offers another interpretation of collective action. In contrast to Tuomela and Miller, Searle claims that collective intentionality is a "primitive phenomenon, which cannot be analyzed as the summation of individual intentional behavior". [11]
John William Searle (29 March 1905 – 7 July 1969) was an Australian minister and educator. He was the second Principal of the Melbourne Bible Institute (now the Melbourne School of Theology ), serving from 1944 to 1963.