John R. Searle

John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Mind: A Brief Introduction, Freedom and Neurobiology, and Philosophy in a New Century.
 (September 2009)

From the Review

September 24, 2009: Why Should You Believe It?*

Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul A. Boghossian

November 2, 2006: Minding the Brain*

Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey

June 23, 2005: What Is Consciousness? (letter)

January 13, 2005: Consciousness: What We Still Don't Know*

The Quest for Consciousness by Christof Koch

July 18, 2002: Chomsky's Revolution: An Exchange

June 27, 2002: 'Words and Rules': An Exchange

April 25, 2002: Chomsky's Revolution (letter)

March 14, 2002: 'Sneaked' or 'Snuck'?*

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker

February 28, 2002: End of the Revolution*

New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky

May 20, 1999: 'I Married a Computer': An Exchange

April 8, 1999: I Married a Computer*

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil

May 15, 1997: 'Consciousness and the Philosophers': An Exchange

March 6, 1997: Consciousness & the Philosophers*

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers

December 21, 1995: 'The Mystery of Consciousness': An Exchange

November 16, 1995: The Mystery of Consciousness: Part II*

The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick

Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett

The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness by Gerald M. Edelman

Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald M. Edelman

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose

The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness by Israel Rosenfield

November 2, 1995: The Mystery of Consciousness*

The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick

Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett

The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness by Gerald Edelman

Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald Edelman

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose

The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness by Israel Rosenfield

May 16, 1991: 'The Storm Over the University': A Further Exchange

February 14, 1991: 'The Storm Over the University': An Exchange

December 6, 1990: The Storm Over the University*

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education by Roger Kimball

The Politics of Liberal Education Winter 1990, Vol. 89, No. 1). edited by Darryl L. Gless, edited by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education edited by Timothy Fuller

June 14, 1990: 'The Emperor's New Mind': An Exchange

February 16, 1989: Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Room: An Exchange

February 2, 1984: An Exchange on Deconstruction

October 27, 1983: The Word Turned Upside Down*

On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan Culler

June 24, 1982: The Myth of the Computer: An Exchange

April 29, 1982: The Myth of the Computer

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter, by Daniel C. Dennett

February 22, 1973: The Sleeping Chess Player (letter)

June 29, 1972: A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics

From New York Review Books

The Mystery of Consciousness
What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body?

Books by John R. Searle

Mind, Language and Society: Doing Philosophy in the Real World (1999)
Die Konstruktion Der Gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeit: Zur Ontologie Ozialer Tatsachen (1998)
Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World (1998)
The Mystery of Consciousness (1997)
The Construction of Social Reality (1995)
The Construction of Social Reality (1995)
(on) Searle on Conversation (1992)
The Rediscovery of the Mind (1992)
Nefesh, Moah U-Mada (1988)
Foundations of Illocutionary Logic (1985)
Minds, Brains, and Science (1984)
Intentionality, an Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983)
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts (1979)
The Philosophy of Language (1974)
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Languag (1969)