Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

In a lively exchange over what has come to be referred to as " The Chinese room Argument ", John Searle sought to refute the claim of proponents of what he calls ' Strong Artificial Intelligence ( AI )' that a computer program can be conscious, though he does agree with advocates of " Weak AI " that computer programs can be formatted to " simulate " conscious states.

The Chinese room is a thought experiment presented by John Searle.

* Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language ( Columbia University Press 2007 ) ( ISBN 978-0-231-14044-7 ), co-authored with Maxwell Bennett, Peter Hacker, and John Searle

* John Searle, " The Storm Over the University ", The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1990

Frank Jackson and John Searle, for example, have defended internalist accounts of thought content according to which the contents of our thoughts are fixed by descriptions that pick out the individuals and kinds that our thoughts intuitively pertain to the sorts of things that we take them to.

John Searle criticising some versions of idealism, summarises two important arguments for subjective idealism.

In the philosophy of language these views are often associated with Wittgenstein ’ s later works and with ordinary language philosophers such as Paul Grice, John Searle and J. L. Austin.

" An exception is analytic philosopher John Searle, who called it an incorrect assumption which produces false dichotomies.

* John R. Searle

Many current and recent philosophers — e. g., Daniel Dennett, Willard Van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, John Rogers Searle, and Jerry Fodor — operate within a broadly physicalist or materialist framework, producing rival accounts of how best to accommodate mind — functionalism, anomalous monism, identity theory, and so on.

Important philosophers of mind include Plato, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Martin Heidegger, John Searle, Daniel Dennett and many others.

* John Searle ( 1979 ).

) John Searle and his Critics, Oxford: Blackwell.

American philosopher John Searle argued in 1990 that " The spread of ' poststructuralist ' literary theory is perhaps the best known example of a silly but noncatastrophic phenomenon.

As summarized by philosopher John Searle, de Saussure established that ' I understand the sentence " the cat is on the mat " the way I do because I know how it would relate to an indefinite — indeed infinite — set of other sentences, " the dog is on the mat ," " the cat is on the couch ," etc.

The philosopher John Searle has said: " In my experience there never was, in fact, a fixed ' canon '; there was rather a certain set of tentative judgments about what had importance and quality.

As John Searle has written:

* Philosopher John Searle suggests that the Western canon can be roughly defined as " a certain Western intellectual tradition that goes from, say, Socrates to Wittgenstein in philosophy, and from Homer to James Joyce in literature ..."

* July 31 – John Searle, American philosopher

John Searle has offered a critique of the Freudian unconscious.

Austin and further developed by John Searle, centers around the idea of the performative, a type of utterance that performs the very action it describes.

Following the usage of, for example, John R. Searle, " speech act " is often meant to refer just to the same thing as the term illocutionary act, which John L. Austin had originally introduced in How to Do Things with Words ( published posthumously in 1962 ).

* John Searle, Speech Acts, Cambridge University Press 1969, ISBN 0-521-09626-X ..

His importance to early fandom is chronicled in his 1974 book The Immortal Storm by Sam Moskowitz and in the 1977 book The Futurians by Damon Knight. With Frederik Pohl and John Michel, 1938

* 1835 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier ( b. 1760 )

John Romero, who was forced to resign after the release of Quake, later formed the ill-fated company Ion Storm.

When he finished work on that game, he found he was not compatible with the Prey development team at Apogee, and therefore left to join his ex-Id compatriot John Romero at Ion Storm.

* Wigger, John H. ( 1998 ) Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-510452-8 – p. ix & 269 focus on 1770 – 1910

* John Rendle-Short, Green Eye of the Storm ( Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1998 ).

Some artists who have been influenced by Magritte's works include John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Jan Verdoodt, Martin Kippenberger, Duane Michals and Storm Thorgerson.

According to John Storm Roberts, R & B became the vehicle for the return of Cuban elements into mass popular music.

* Wigger, John H. Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, ( 1998 ) 269pp ; focus on 1770-1910

* December 13 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier ( b. 1760 )

* January 3 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier ( d. 1835 )

* Brown, John S. " The Maturation of Operational Art: Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

The Doors were the supporting act on the last week, and Morrison's influence on The Doors singer, Jim Morrison, was noted by John Densmore in his book Riders On The Storm.

John Storm Roberts states: " It was the Cuban connection, but increasingly also New York salsa, that provided the major and enduring influences — the ones that went deeper than earlier imitation or passing fashion.

* Roberts, John Storm.

" – Rev John Congram on The Storm

1993's A Storm in Heaven was the band's full-length debut, produced by esteemed record producer John Leckie ( of Radiohead, The Stone Roses, XTC and The Fall fame ).

* John MacWhirter ( 1898 ), " Western Cattle in Storm "

* 1955 Storm Over the Nile as John Durrance

Based on a stage play performed at a Dark Shadows convention, Return to Collinwood is an audio drama written by Jamison Selby and Jim Pierson, and starring David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, Lara Parker, Roger Davis, Marie Wallace, Christopher Pennock, Donna Wandrey, James Storm, and Terry Crawford.

The twelve founding Board of Directors members included Mary Costa, Edith Head, Gale Storm, Marc Davis, Tony Duquette, Harold Grieve, John Hench, Chuck Jones, Henry Mancini, Marty Paich, Nelson Riddle and Millard Sheets.

* John Storm, The Valadon Drama.

* Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, 1770-1820 ( Oxford University Press, 1998 ) by John H. Wigger ( ISBN 0-195-10452-8 )

After losing to the Seattle Storm in the 2004 WNBA Western Conference Championship, the Monarchs made major roster moves to improve the team-obtaining younger players and emphasizing Head Coach John Whisenant's defense-oriented system.