Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality: Discussions with John R. Searle (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 79)

**Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality** - these are the main topics in the work of John R. Searle, one of the leading philosophical figures of the present times. How language is based on intentionality, how intentionality in turn is to be explicated by means of distinctions discovered in Speech Act Theory, and how language and intentionality are both related to social facts and institutions - these are questions to be tackled in this volume. The contributions result from discussions on and with John R. Searle, containing Searle's own latest views - including his seminal ideas on Rationality in Action. The collection provides a good basis for advanced seminar debates in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Philosophy, and will also stimulate some further research on all of the three main topics. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality....Pages 3-16 Interview With John R. Searle....Pages 17-22 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 How Performatives Don’t Work....Pages 25-39 Are Performative Utterances Declarations?....Pages 41-64 Expressibility, Explicability, and Taxonomy....Pages 65-82 Expressing an Intentional State....Pages 83-91 On the Proper Treatment of Performatives 1 ....Pages 93-104 Why Do we Mean Something Rather Than Nothing?....Pages 105-123 What Is an Illocutionary Point?....Pages 125-139 Searle on Meaning and Action 1 ....Pages 141-161 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Understanding Utterances and Other Actions 1 ....Pages 165-186 Intrinsic Intentionality....Pages 187-203 Causal Reduction, Ontological Reduction, and First-Person Ontology....Pages 205-221 The Hidden Algebra of the Mind From a Linguistic Perspective....Pages 223-234 Identification and Misidentification....Pages 235-243 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Searle on Social Reality: Process is Prior to Product....Pages 247-257 On Searle’s Collective Intentionality. Some Notes....Pages 259-270 Searle’S Theory of Institutional Facts: A Program of Critical Revision....Pages 271-286 True Reality and Real Truth....Pages 287-291 Searle, Collective Intentionality, and Social Institutions....Pages 293-307 Front Matter....Pages 309-309 The Classical Model of Rationality and its Weaknesses....Pages 311-325 Back Matter....Pages 327-327

The contributions in this volume result from discussions on and with John R. Searle, containing Searle's own latest views - including his seminal ideas on Rationality in Action. The collection provides a good basis for advanced seminar debates in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy, and will also stimulate some further research on all of the three main topics.

The collection provides a good basis for advanced seminar debates in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind and Social Philosophy, and will start some further research on all of the three main topics as well."--Jacket