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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
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…
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Minds, brains, and programs
  • J. Searle
  • Philosophy
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • 1 September 1980
TLDR
Only a machine could think, and only very special kinds of machines, namely brains and machines with internal causal powers equivalent to those of brains, and no program by itself is sufficient for thinking.
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The Rediscovery of the Mind
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Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
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…
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A classification of illocutionary acts
  • J. Searle
  • Linguistics
    Language 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…
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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.…
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The Construction of Social Reality
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…
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Foundations of Illocutionary Logic
TLDR
John Searle presents the first formalised logic of a general theory of speech acts, dealing with such things as the nature of an illocutionary force, the logical form of its components, and the conditions of success of elementary illocutions.
Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
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…
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Rationality in Action
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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