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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
- J. Searle
- Philosophy
- 1 March 1970
Part I. A Theory of Speech Acts: 1. Methods and scope 2. Expressions, meaning and speech acts 3. The structure of illocutionary acts 4. Reference as a speech act 5. Predication Part II. Some…
Minds, brains, and programs
- J. Searle
- PhilosophyBehavioral and Brain Sciences
- 1 September 1980
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Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
- J. Searle
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 31 May 1983
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The nature of intentional states 2. The intentionality of perception 3. Intention and action 4. Intentional causation 5. The background 6. Meaning 7. Intensional…
A classification of illocutionary acts
- J. Searle
- LinguisticsLanguage in Society
- 1 April 1976
ABSTRACT There are at least a dozen linguistically significant dimensions of differences between illocutionary acts. Of these, the most important are illocutionary point, direction of fit, and…
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts
- J. Searle
- Linguistics, Philosophy
- 31 October 1979
Acknowledgements Introduction Origins of the essays 1. A taxonomy of illocutionary acts 2. Indirect speech acts 3. The logical status of fictional discourse 4. Metaphor 5. Literal meaning 6.…
The Construction of Social Reality
- J. Searle
- Economics
- 1 October 1997
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…
Foundations of Illocutionary Logic
- J. Searle, D. Vanderveken
- Philosophy
- 26 July 1985
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Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
- J. Searle
- Economics
- 12 January 2010
1. The Purpose of this Book 2. Intentionality 3. Collective Intentionality and the Assignment of Function 4. Language as Bilogical and Social 5. The General Theory of Institutions and Institutional…
Rationality in Action
- J. Searle
- Philosophy
- 1 October 2001
The study of rationality and practical reason, or rationality in action, has been central to Western intellectual culture. In this invigorating book, John Searle lays out six claims of what he calls…
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