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John R. Searle
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 228
Citations - 60123
John R. Searle is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Consciousness & Intentionality. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 228 publications receiving 58266 citations. Previous affiliations of John R. Searle include University of California & G. D. Searle & Company.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
TL;DR: A theory of speech acts is proposed in this article. But it is not a theory of language, it is a theory about the structure of illocutionary speech acts and not of language.
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Alice Koller,John R. Searle +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of speech acts is proposed in this paper. But it is not a theory of language, it is a theory about the structure of illocutionary speech acts and not of language.
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The Construction of Social Reality
TL;DR: In "The Construction of Social Reality", eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement as mentioned in this paper.
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Minds, brains, and programs
TL;DR: Only a machine could think, and only very special kinds of machines, namely brains and machines with internal causal powers equivalent to those of brains, and no program by itself is sufficient for thinking.
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Minds, Brains, and Programs
TL;DR: In this article, the main argument of this paper is directed at establishing this claim and the form of the argument is to show how a human agent could instantiate the program and still not have the relevant intentionality.