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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      July 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511606366
      9780521597449
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606366
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Logic, Philosophy, Neurosciences
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    One of the most important and influential philosophers of the last 30 years, John Searle has been concerned throughout his career with a single overarching question: how can we have a unified and theoretically satisfactory account of ourselves and of our relations to other people and to the natural world? In other words, how can we reconcile our common-sense conception of ourselves as conscious, free, mindful, rational agents in a world that we believe comprises brute, unconscious, mindless, meaningless, mute physical particles in fields of force? The essays in this collection are all related to the broad overarching issue that unites the diverse strands of Searle's work. Gathering in an accessible manner essays available only in relatively obscure books and journals, this collection will be of particular value to professionals and upper-level students in philosophy as well as to Searle's more extended audience in such fields as psychology and linguistics.

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    "The scope and consistency of these views, which have now became classical, is truly impressing...Searle is doing some genuinely pioneering work here, suggesting some genuinely new research programs in philosophy of mind."- Alexandre Billon, Metapsychology Online Reviews

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