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• John R. Searle
• Philosophy of Language
• Intentionality (Philosophy)

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Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World

by John R. Searle. 180 pgs.

Contributors:

   John R. Searle

Publisher:

   Basic Books

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1999

Subjects:

Philosophy, Philosophy Of Mind, Language And Languages--Philosophy

	CONTENTS
	Introduction	ix
1	Basic Metaphysics: Reality and Truth	1
	The Enlightenment Vision: Reality and Its Intelligibility ,	1
	Introducing Philosophy ,	7
	The Default Positions ,	9
	Reality and Truth: The Default Position ,	12
	Four Challenges to Realism ,	20
	Skepticism, Knowledge, and Reality ,	27
	Is There Any justification for External Realism?	31
	Beyond Atheism ,	33
2	How We Fit into the Universe: The Mind as a Biological Phenomenon	39
	Three Features of Consciousness ,	39
	A Clash of Default Positions: The Mind-Body Problem ,	45
	The Irreducibility of Consciousness ,	55
	The Danger of Epiphenomenalism ,	57
	The Function of Consciousness ,	62
	Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causation ,	64
3	The Essence of the Mind: Consciousness and Its Structure	67
	Three Mistakes About Consciousness ,	69
	Structural Features of Consciousness ,	73
	The Field of Consciousness and the Binding Problem ,	80
	Consciousness and Value ,	83
4	How the Mind Works: Intentionality	85
	Consciousness and Intentionality ,	86
	Naturalizing Intentionality: Another Clash of Default Positions ,	89
	Intentionality Naturalized as a Biological Phenomenon ,	95
	The Structure of Intentional States ,	99
	Intentional Causation ,	104
	The Background of Intentionality ,	107
5	The Structure of the Social Universe: How the Mind Creates an Objective Social Reality	111
	Social and Institutional Reality ,	112
	Observer-Dependency and the Building Blocks of Social Reality ,	116
	A Simple Model of the Construction of Institutional Reality ,	124
	The Example of Money ,	126
	How Institutional Reality Can Be So Powerful ,	128
	Solutions to the Problem and the Puzzles ,	131
6	How Language Works: Speech as a Kind of Human Action	135
	Speech Acts: Illocutionary Acts and Perlocutionary Acts ,	136
	The Meanings of "Meaning,"	139
	Meaning and Communication ,	144
	Various Types of Speech Acts ,	146
	Constitutive Rules and Symbolism ,	152
	Notes	163
	Suggestions for Further Reading	167
	Subject Index	171
	Name Index	175

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