John R. Searle Libros

El filósofo norteamericano John R. Searle debe su renombre internacional a sus trabajos sobre el lenguaje y la mente. En este texto prosigue su labor en el campo de la filosofía práctica, retomando desde su propia perspectiva algunas cuestiones fundamentales, a saber, las de la libertad y el poder político. ¿En qué consiste ser libre? Si acudimos a los logros de la investigación contemporánea en el ámbito de las ciencias cognitivas y de la neurobiología, debemos reconocer una determinada relación con la hipótesis del determinismo. La pregunta, entonces, es: ¿cuál ha de ser la naturaleza de la mente, como hecho físico, para que la libertad sea posible?

In this important study, the authors use new material to augment their earlier contributions to understanding the economic and political transformations now taking place in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

Focusing on the intersection of law and philosophy, this collection of essays examines the criteria that attribute value to objects such as paper currency and digital signals. It delves into the conceptual frameworks that underpin our understanding of money and its significance in society.

Tense and terrifying, the narrative features unforgettable characters whose lives intersect in shocking ways. The story unfolds with unexpected twists that keep readers on edge, ensuring a gripping experience that lingers long after the last page.

In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind.

'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.'--Philosophical Quarterly

Offers a general introduction to the philosophy of the mind. Giving a survey of the major issues, including philosophical issues in cognitive science and neurobiology, the author argues for his own distinctive point of view. He leads the reader through a variety of theories that reduce the mind to aspects that can be fully explained by physics.

In this fascinating, provocative account, eminent philosopher John Searle shows how our everyday actions and cultural knowledge are of a metaphysical complexity that is truely staggering. He explores the charecter of the structures of our daily work that exist by human agreement and from this, the nature of objective reality. For example, how can it be completely objective fact that coins are money, if something is money only because we belive it is money? And what is the role of language constitutiing such facts? In examining the difference between what can and what cannot be socially constructed, he also shows how biology, which offers facts that are independant of human opinion and is often seen in opposition to the social sciences, forms the basis of these cultural and consititutional forms.