John R. Searle is noted for contributing to the philosophy of language a theory of speech acts and a theory of intentionality. He has also written extensively on the philosophy of mind; here he is particularly noted for his "Chinese Room Argument," a...

Searle, John(1932–) John R. Searle was born in Denver Colorado in 1932. He attended the University of Wisconsin (1949–1952), then Oxford (1952–1959) as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his PhD (Oxford) in 1959 and went to the University...

John Rogers Searle (born July 31 1932 in Denver, Colorado) is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). He is widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind,...

IN PHILOSOPHY, JOHN SEARLE told me, the name of the game is disagreement. Searle, who has taught philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1959, shows no inclination to duck dispute. In The New York Review of Books, for example, where he functions...

This paper makes a critical assessment of some contributions of John Searle of direct relevance to social science-his theory of rationality and his theory of institutions. The former is criticized for being able to account for how people can act for "external reasons," as...

A man testifying at an inquest Monday described holding Princess Diana's hand as she repeated "My God, my God" moments after her car crashed in Paris.Abdelatif Redjil told the court investigating Diana's death that he and his friend Belkacem Bouzid were passing near the Pont...

A discussion of William Lycan's response as a functionalist to John Searle's famous paper.