John R. Searle: Thinking about the Real World

ISBN-13: 9783110325300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 236 str.

Opis

John R. Searle is one of the world's leading philosophers. During his long and outstanding career, he has made groundbreaking and lasting contributions to the philosophy of language, to the philosophy of mind, as well as to the nature, structure, and functioning of social reality.§This volume documents the 13th Münster Lectures on Philosophy with John R. Searle. It includes not only 11 critical papers on Searle s philosophy and Searle's replies to the papers, but also an original article by John R. Searle on his overall philosophical enterprise entitled "The Basic Reality and the Human Reality". "I think Münster is probably unique among contemporary universities in its ability to produce such a high level of philosophical production from their philosophy students." - John R. Searle

O autorze

Dirk Franken studied philosophy, sports science and history at the University of Münster. Since 2006 he is Assistant Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Münster. Attila Karakus is research assistant in philosophy and faculty member at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He is Member and Lecturer at the Center of philosophy of science at the University of Münster. His research interests include Philosophy of Mind, German Idealism, Metaphysics, Metaethics, Philosophy of Action, American and British Neohegelianism. Jan G. Michel studied philosophy, English philology and educational science He works in analytic theoretical philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, (modal) epistemology and the philosophy of science, and has published several articles in all of these areas. He works as Assistant Lecturer both in the Philosophy Department and in the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Münster and is member of the board of directors of the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Münster.