This book maps an aspect of children's social development that has been neglected in psychological research, namely, their acquisition of the capability to participate in economic transactions. In their everyday life, children exchange a variety of goods with their peers. Girls and boys frequently trade cards, marbles, candies, as well as immaterial goods such as score values and gestures of friendship. This book is about children as exchange agents. It attempts to describe the process through which children acquire the capability to participate in commercial transactions. We present a...

These interviews with John Searle arguably today's most influential living analytic philosopher cover a wide scope. Among the topics discussed are: the Philosophy of Language, the Theory of Mind, and the nature of the social world. With a transparent and precise style, Prof. Searle reconstructs the different stages in the development of Speech Acts Theory. He also sums up twenty years of debate about the Chinese Room Argument, which he uses to challenge those Artificial Intelligence scholars who claim that the brain is a digital computer. As Searle himself points out, some of the hypotheses...

John Searle es uno de los pensadores mas influyentes que ha conocido el siglo XX, y quizas sea el autor vivo mas importante de la filosofa-a anala-tica. La presente obra recopila las doce horas de conversaciones que el autor sostuvo con John Searle en su despacho de la Universidad de Berkeley, California. En un lenguaje transparente, matizado con abundantes ejemplos, el fila sofo expone los fundamentos de su sistema de pensamiento y resume los desarrollos alcanzados en cada una de las Areas de investigacian en las que ha incursionado: la filosofa-a del lenguaje, la teora-a de la mente y la...