John R. Searle Libri

La filosofia della mente si distingue dagli altri ambiti filosofici attuali per il fatto che tutte le sue teorie più famose e influenti sono false. John R. Searle, il più autorevole studioso della mente, smonta così le pretese della disciplina a cui egli stesso appartiene. Ma mentre confuta le teorie più accreditate rivela gli aspetti segreti e sconcertanti di quella elusiva entità che chiamiamo appunto mente umana. Comparsa dell'intelligenza, natura della coscienza, possibilità di un libero arbitrio, debolezza della volontà, struttura della decisione: tutto questo e altro ancora è al centro della riflessione di Searle.

In this important study, the authors use new material to augment their earlier contributions to understanding the economic and political transformations now taking place in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

Focusing on the intersection of law and philosophy, this collection of essays examines the criteria that attribute value to objects such as paper currency and digital signals. It delves into the conceptual frameworks that underpin our understanding of money and its significance in society.

Tense and terrifying, the narrative features unforgettable characters whose lives intersect in shocking ways. The story unfolds with unexpected twists that keep readers on edge, ensuring a gripping experience that lingers long after the last page.

In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind.

'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.'--Philosophical Quarterly

Offers a general introduction to the philosophy of the mind. Giving a survey of the major issues, including philosophical issues in cognitive science and neurobiology, the author argues for his own distinctive point of view. He leads the reader through a variety of theories that reduce the mind to aspects that can be fully explained by physics.

In this fascinating, provocative account, eminent philosopher John Searle shows how our everyday actions and cultural knowledge are of a metaphysical complexity that is truely staggering. He explores the charecter of the structures of our daily work that exist by human agreement and from this, the nature of objective reality. For example, how can it be completely objective fact that coins are money, if something is money only because we belive it is money? And what is the role of language constitutiing such facts? In examining the difference between what can and what cannot be socially constructed, he also shows how biology, which offers facts that are independant of human opinion and is often seen in opposition to the social sciences, forms the basis of these cultural and consititutional forms.

It has long been one of the most fundamental problems of philosophy, and it is now, John Searle writes, "the most important problem in the biological sciences": What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body? In what began as a series of essays in The New York Review of Books, John Searle evaluates the positions on consciousness of such well-known scientists and philosophers as Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, and Israel Rosenfield. He challenges claims that the mind works like a computer, and that brain functions can be reproduced by computer programs. With a sharp eye for confusion and contradiction, he points out which avenues of current research are most likely to come up with a biological examination of how conscious states are caused by the brain. Only when we understand how the brain works will we solve the mystery of consciousness, and only then will we begin to understand issues ranging from artificial intelligence to our very nature as human beings.

"In the second half of the book, Searle applies his theory of social reality to the problem of political power, explaining the role of language in the formation of our political reality. The institutional structures that organize, empower, and regulate our lives - money, property, marriage, government - consist in the assignment and collective acceptance of certain statuses to objects and people. Whether it is the president of the United States, a twenty-dollar bill, or private property, these entities perform functions as determined by their status in our institutional reality. Searle focuses on the political powers that exist within these systems of status functions and the way in which language constitutes them."--BOOK JACKET.