John R. Searle thinking about the real world (Ontos Verlag, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references
Blank Page; Preface by the Editors; Acknowledgements by John R. Searle; List of Abbreviations of John R. Searle's Major Works; 1 Introduction; The Basic Reality and the Human Reality; 2 Colloquium, Part I; Subjectivity as the Mark of the Mental; Problems with Searle's account of intrinsic intentionality; Searle's Biological Naturalism: A Typology; Searle on Mental Causation; Acting on Gaps?John Searle's Conception of Free Will; 51 Years on: Searle on Proper Names Revisited; Searle on External Realism; Trivial, Platitudinous, Boring? Searle on Conceptual Relativism
The Role of Declarations in the Construction of Social RealityNormative Validity through Descriptive Acceptability?; More than words can say: Searle on the Constitution of Social Facts; 3 Colloquium, Part II; Reply to "Subjectivity as the Mark of the Mental"; Reply to "Problems with Searle's Accountof Intrinsic Intentionality"; Reply to "Searle's Biological Naturalism: A Ty pology"; Reply to "Searle on Mental Causation: Biological Naturalism, or Something Near Enough"; Reply to "Acting on Gaps? John Searle's Conception of Free Will"; Reply to "51 Years on: Searle on proper names revisited."
Reply to "Searle on External Realism"Reply to"Trivial, Platitudinous, Boring? Searle on Conceptual Relativism"; Reply to "The Role of Declarations in the Construction of Social Reality"; Reply to "Normative Validity through Descriptive Acceptability? Why Searle's Theory of Social Reality is Incomplete"; Blank Page; Reply to:"More Than Words Can Say: Searle on the Constitution of Social Facts."
John R. Searle is one of the world's leading philosophers. During his long and outstanding career, he has made groundbreaking and lasting contributions to the philosophy of language, to the philosophy of mind, as well as to the nature, structure, and functioning of social reality. This volume documents the 13th Münster Lectures on Philosophy with John R. Searle. It includes not only 11 critical papers on Searle's philosophy and Searle's replies to the papers, but also an original article by John R. Searle on his overall philosophical enterprise entitled ""The Basic Reality and the Human Realit