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Consciousness and Language
John Searle
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Description for Consciousness and Language
paperback. A collection of essays from one of the most influential philosophers of the last 30 years. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BG; CFA; HPCF; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 274 x 252 x 24. Weight in Grams: 432.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521597449
SKU
V9780521597449
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Reviews for Consciousness and Language
"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