JOHN SEARLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE: FORCE, MEANING, AND MIND; ED. BY SAVAS L. TSOHATZIDIS

This is a volume of original essays on key aspects of John Searle's philosophy of language. It examines Searle's work in relation to current issues of central significance, including internalism versus externalism about mental and linguistic content, truth-conditional versus non-truth-conditional conceptions of content, the relative priorities of thought and language in the explanation of intentionality, the status of the distinction between force and sense in the theory of meaning, the issue of meaning scepticism in relation to rule-following, and the proper characterization of ‘what is said’ in relation to the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Written by a distinguished team of contemporary philosophers, and prefaced by an illuminating essay by Searle, the volume aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of Searle's work in philosophy of language, and to suggest innovative approaches to fundamental questions in that area. [Publisher] Introduction / Savas L. Tsohatzidis -- What Is Language? : Some Preliminary Remarks / John R. Searle -- From Mind To Meaning -- Content, Mode, And Self-reference / Francois Recanati -- Searle Against The World: How Can Experiences Find Their Objects? / Kent Bach -- Seeing What Is There / Robin Jeshion -- Intentionalism, Descriptivism, And Proper Names / Wayne A. Davis -- On The Alleged Priority Of Thought Over Language / Christopher Gauker -- Rule Scepticism : Searle's Criticism Of Kripke's Wittgenstein / Martin Kusch -- From Meaning To Force -- How To Say Things With Words / Kepa Korta & John Perry -- Semantics Without The Distinction Between Sense And Force / Stephen J. Barker -- Dynamic Discourse Semantics For Embedded Speech Acts / Nicholas Asher -- Yes-no Questions And The Myth Of Content Invariance / Savas L. Tsohatzidis -- How Do Speech Acts Express Psychological States? / Mitchell Green. Edited By Savas L. Tsohatzidis. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Introduction / Savas L. Tsohatzidis What is language : some preliminary remarks / John R. Searle From mind to meaning Content, mode, and self-reference / François Recanati Searle against the world : how can experiences find their objects? / Kent Bach Seeing what is there / Robin Jeshion Intentionalism, descriptivism, and proper names / Wayne A. Davis On the alleged priority of thought over language / Christopher Gauker Rule skepticism : Searle's criticism of Kripke's Wittgenstein / Martin Kusch From meaning to force How to say things with words / Kepa Korta and John Perry Semantics without the distinction between sense and force / Stephen J. Barker Dynamic discourse semantics for embedded speech acts / Nicholas Asher Yes-no questions and the myth of content invariance / Savas L. Tsohatzidis How do speech acts express psychological states? / Mitchell Green This volume examines Searle's work in relation to current issues of central significance, including internalism versus externalism about mental and linguistic content, and truth-conditional versus non-truth-conditional conceptions of content Original essays on key aspects of Searle's philosophy of language, prefaced by John Searle himself