Philosophy in a New Century
Douban
Selected Essays
John R. Searle
overview
John R. Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to three
areas of philosophy: philosophy ofmind, 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 statements
of positions developed in more detail elsewhere; Artificial Intelligence
and cognitive science, where Searle assesses the current state of the
debate and develops his most recent thoughts; and philosophy of
language, where Searle connects ideas fromvarious strands of his work
in order to develop original answers to fundamental questions. There
are also explorations of the limitations of phenomenological inquiry,
the mind-body problem, and the nature and future of philosophy.
This rich collection from one of America’s leading contemporary
philosophers will be valuable for all who are interested in these central
philosophical questions.
contents
Original place of publication of the essays page viii
Introduction 1
1 Philosophy in a new century 4
2 Social ontology: some basic principles (with a new
addendum by the author) 26
3 The Turing Test: fifty-five years later 53
4 Twenty-one years in the Chinese Room 67
5 Is the brain a digital computer? 86
6 The phenomenological illusion 107
7 The self as a problem in philosophy and neurobiology 137
8 Why I am not a property dualist 152
9 Fact and value, “is” and “ought,” and reasons for action 161
10 The unity of the proposition 181
Name index 197
Subject index 199