John Searle

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John Rogers Searle (born July 31, 1932 in Denver, Colorado) is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, and for his views on practical reason and the characteristics of socially constructed versus physical realities. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize and the Jovellanos Prize in 2000, and the National Humanities Medal in 2004. Contents [hide] Biography Aside from strict academics, Professor Searle was also the first tenured professor to join the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. He later published a book on the subject, The Campus War: A Sympathetic Look At the University in Agony (1971). He frequently comments on philosophical and political topics for the New York Review of Books. A collection of his reviews on the topic of consciousness was collected as The Mystery of Consciousness (1997). Searle was educated at Christ Church, Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He often publishes under the name "J. R. Searle." Philosophy Speech acts and their illocutionary force Searle's early work, which to a great extent established his reputation as a estimable philosopher, was on speech acts. It built upon the efforts of his Oxford teachers J. L. Austin and P. F. Strawson. In particular Searle's Speech Acts sets out to develop Austin's analysis of illocutionary acts, acts performed in saying something, as exposed in How To Do Things with

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