librosenred.com, the leading e-publisher in the Spanish market, proudly announces its first release in English.
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librosenred.com, the leading e-publisher in the Spanish market, proudly announces its first release in English. |
Conversations with John Searle
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Mr. Faigenbaum has done a great job, reflecting in his book the most
relevant developments of Searle's philosophical work. Thorough, complete,
entertaining, informative...if you are interested in 20th century American
Philosophy, this book is a must.
This is the best discussion of Searle's ideas I've ever read. Many complex
topics such as the relationship between brain and consciousness, the
'Chinese Room' argument, and also Searle's aesthetic and political ideas,
are discussed. The interviewer has an attitude, he is very critical and
controversial. And above all, the books has many stories about Searle's
years at Oxford that are a lot of fun.
This is NOT the typical interviews book, filled with self-indulgence and
old-time stories. Mr. Faigenbaum uses his deep knowledge of Searle's
developments to discuss the central aspects of his body of work. This non-compromised
approach, sheds light on the key role Searle played in 20th century's North
American philosophy. A book that should be
read by anyone who wants to understand the underlying tension in current
philosophical ideas. Mr.
Faigenbaum does a good job at using the interview format to his advantage,
keeping the book conceptual, complete and entertaining.
It was very helpful for me to read this book. It helped me to understand many complex ideas, and to understand the most general positions of this scholar. I recommend it for everybody taking their first steps in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, as well as speech act theory. It is easy-reading yet very deep.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 7
Intellectual biography 9
"A remarkable intellectual atmosphere" 9
The Oxford Years 19
John Austin 31
Peter Strawson 39
Bertrand Russell 40
Dagmar Carboch 42
The Birth of Speech Acts 47
Berkeley and the Free Speech Movement (FSM) 51
Affirmative Action 63
Philosophy of Mind 71
Where is cognitive science going? 71
The Chinese Room 76
Information processing 84
Connectionism 89
Cognitive Psychology and the Theory Theory 91
Reductionism 98
Free Will 102
Mind and Culture 106
Are meanings in the head? Internalism vs. externalism 110
The Background 118
Philosophy of Language 123
Language and philosophy 123
Reference 125
Proper names 130
Wittgenstein and meaning 132
Social normativity and Wittgenstein's private language
argument 135
Austin and Speech Acts 145
Chomsky and rule following 161
Metaphor 170
Rhetoric and argumentation 190
From ontology to political science 195
External Realism 195
Intrinsic and observer-relative features of the world 200
Epistemology and intersubjectivity 211
Morality 214
Social ontology, political philosophy and socialism 220
Prospects 229
American pragmatism 229
Influence on Child Psychology 230
Habermas 235
French post-modern thought 238
Derrida 243
Philosophical enemies 252
Continental and Anglo-Saxon Philosophy 254
Aesthetics 256
American Universities 261
The philosophy that is coming 263
John Searle's method 268
