John Searle | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 15/12/2018

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John Searle


00:01:37 1 Biography
00:02:07 1.1 Politics
00:05:10 1.2 Sexual assault allegations
00:06:28 1.3 Awards and recognitions
00:06:50 2 Philosophy
00:06:59 2.1 Speech acts
00:10:47 2.1.1 Searle–Derrida debate
00:17:24 2.2 Intentionality and the background
00:20:35 2.3 Consciousness
00:22:17 2.3.1 Ontological subjectivity
00:24:11 2.3.2 Artificial intelligence
00:27:03 2.4 Social reality
00:29:32 2.4.1 Searle–Lawson debate
00:30:36 2.5 Rationality
00:34:39 3 Bibliography
00:34:48 3.1 Primary
00:36:36 3.2 Secondary



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John Rogers Searle (; born 31 July 1932) is an American philosopher. He is currently Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely noted for his contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy, he began teaching at UC Berkeley in 1959.
As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, Searle was secretary of "Students against Joseph McCarthy". He received all his university degrees, BA, MA, and DPhil, from the University of Oxford, where he held his first faculty positions. Later, at UC Berkeley, he became the first tenured professor to join the 1964–1965 Free Speech Movement. In the late 1980s, Searle challenged the restrictions of Berkeley's 1980 rent stabilization ordinance. Following what came to be known as the California Supreme Court's "Searle Decision" of 1990, Berkeley changed its rent control policy, leading to large rent increases between 1991 and 1994.
In 2000 Searle received the Jean Nicod Prize; in 2004, the National Humanities Medal; and in 2006, the Mind & Brain Prize. Searle's early work on speech acts, influenced by J. L. Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein, helped establish his reputation. His notable concepts include the "Chinese room" argument against "strong" artificial intelligence. In March 2017, Searle was accused of sexual assault.