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1	Construction of social reality more books like this by John R. Searle add to wishlist This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. see all copies from $5.08! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Rediscovery of the Mind more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist In this work, John Searle launches an attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results in so much barrenness and sterility in psychology, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science: there can be no study of mind that leaves out consciousness. What is ... see all copies from $2.72! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Minds, Brains and Science more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.65! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled. see all copies from $5.87! new only from $32.01! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Generalized, linear, and mixed models more books like this by Charles E McCulloch, Shayle Robert Searle add to wishlist This book provides an accessible and self-contained introduction to statistical models - now in a modernized new edition. "Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models, Second Edition" provides an up-to-date treatment of the essential techniques for developing and applying a wide variety of statistical models. The book presents thorough and unified ... see all copies from $48.97! new only from $74.99! \| SVS
6	Mind: A Brief Introduction more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist "The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." In "Mind", Searle dismantles these famous and influential theories as he presents a vividly written, comprehensive introduction to the mind. Here readers will find one of the world's ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $18.63! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Philosophy in a New Century: Selected Essays more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $12.55! new only from $12.75! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any confidence. John Searle brings these notions down from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.87! \| SVS
9	Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist John Searle's Speech Acts (1969) and Expression and Meaning (1979) developed a highly original and influential approach to the study of language. But behind both works lay the assumption that the philosophy of language is in the end a branch of the philosophy of the mind: speech acts are forms of human action and represent just one example of the ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $37.90! \| SVS
10	Consciousness and Language more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist One of the most important and influential philosophers of the last 30 years, John Searle has been concerned throughout his career with a single overarching question: how can we have a unified and theoretically satisfactory account of ourselves and of our relations to other people and to the natural world? In other words, how can we reconcile our ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $14.00! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Mystery of Consciousness more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist 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. The question of just how the brain works, and the mystery of human consciousness, are the most important issues in philosophy and ... see all copies from $4.25! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Rationality in Action more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist The study of rationality and practical reason, or rationality in action, has been central to Western intellectual culture. In this 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. A central ... see all copies from $10.07! new only from $17.71!
13 view cover	Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist John Searle's Speech Acts made a highly original contribution to work in the philosophy of language. Expression and Meaning is a direct successor, concerned to develop and refine the account presented in Searle's earlier work, and to extend its application to other modes of discourse such as metaphor, fiction, reference, and indirect speech arts. ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $31.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language more books like this by M R Bennett add to wishlist In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive ... see all copies from $10.60! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Philosophy of Language more books like this by John R. Searle add to wishlist see all copies from $4.95! new only from $42.12! \| first editions
17 view cover	Speech ACT Theory and Pragmatics more books like this by John R Searle (Editor), Ferenc Kiefer (Editor), Manfred Bierwisch (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $20.16! \| SVS
18 view cover	Bioethics for Scientists more books like this by John Bryant (Editor), Linda Baggott La Velle (Editor), John Searle (Editor) add to wishlist A dictionary definition of Bioethics is, 'the ethics, or moral principles and rules of conduct, of medical and biological research'. This book is an introductory text of just biological and not medical bioethics. It covers the ethics of experimentation, including genetic manipulation, in plants and animals; ethics and biodiversity, ethics and the ... see all copies from $38.57! new only from $110.60! \| SVS
19	Minds, brains and science : the 1984 Reith lectures more books like this by John R. Searle add to wishlist This is a text of the Reith lectures of 1984 in which John Searle challenged the pretentions of artificial intelligence and the idea that the brain is no more than a biological computer. John Searle also wrote "The Campus War", "Expression and Meaning" and "Intentionality". see all copies from $4.40! first editions
20 view cover	Mind, Language, and Society: Doing Philosophy in the Real World more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist An introduction to the major questions of philosophy by one of Americas greatest and best-known philosophers. A practical guide to philosophical theory and how it applies to your life. . Reality. Truth. Common sense. Sensibility. Sense. Mind. Consciousness. Society. These are words very much under heated scrutiny these days. But few of us are ... see all copies from $3.03! new only from $9.84! \| first editions
21 view cover	Foundations of Illocutionary Logic more books like this by John R Searle, Daniel Vanderveken add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $27.81! new only from $27.81!
22	The campus war more books like this by John R. Searle add to wishlist see all copies from $11.99!
23	Mente, Lenguaje Y Sociedad / Mind, Language and Society: La Filosoffa En El Mundo Real / the Philosophy in the Real World (Alianza Ensayo) (Spanish Edition) by John R. Searle add to wishlist see all copies from $5.86! new only from $27.55!
24	(On) Searle on conversation more books like this by John R. Searle, Herman Parret, Jef Verschueren add to wishlist This controversial lecture at an international conference held in 1981 at the Universidada Estudual of Campinas, Brazil was given by John Searle in which he presented two conceptual theses: that conversation doesn't have an intrinsic structure about which a relevant theory can be formulated and that conversations are not subject to (constitutive) ... see all copies from $199.61! new only from $199.61!
25	Mente, La by Searle John R. add to wishlist see all copies from $51.18! new only from $51.18!

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