* 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 ..."

Following substantially an account of H. P. Grice, Searle suggests that we are able to derive meaning out of indirect speech acts by means of a cooperative process out of which we are able to derive multiple illocutions ; however, the process he proposes does not seem to accurately solve the problem.

Descriptivism suggests that a name is indeed an abbreviation of a description, which is a set of properties or, as later modified by John Searle, a disjunction of properties.

" Searle suggests that to reduce publish or perish pressures that can hamper their classroom teaching, capable professors be given tenure much sooner than the standard four-to-six years.

Philosopher John Searle suggests that, despite the " opaque prose " and lofty claims of Giroux, he interprets the goal of Giroux's form of critical pedagogy " to create political radicals ", thus highlighting the contestable and antagonistic moral and political grounds of the ideals of citizenship and " public wisdom "; these varying moral perspectives of what is " right " are to be found in what John Dewey has referred to as the tensions between traditional and progressive education.

John Searle, on the other hand, suggests that a thinking machine is, at best, a simulation, and writes " No one supposes that computer simulations of a five-alarm fire will burn the neighborhood down or that a computer simulation of a rainstorm will leave us all drenched.

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.

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.

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 ).

The continuing stream of books on Derrida — over 150 titles since 2000 versus about 25 for John Searle and about 40 for Richard Rorty, for example — indicates no abatement in the popularity of deconstruction in relation to other competing trends in Philosophy.

Searle exemplified his view on deconstruction in The New York Review of Books, February 2, 1984 ; for example:

John Searle, for example, argues ( Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind ) that, once we discover that our water is H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, we have the choice of either redefining it as H < sub > 2 </ sub > O ( a classical reduction redefinition ) or continuing to allow the term water to refer to anything with the basic properties of water ( transparency, wetness, etc .).

John Searle has used the theory of speech acts to explore the nature of social / institutional reality, so as to describe such aspects of social reality which he instances under the rubrics of “ marriage, property, hiring, firing, war, revolutions, cocktail parties, governments, meetings, unions, parliaments, corporations, laws, restaurants, vacations, lawyers, professors, doctors, medieval knights, and taxes, for example ”.

An example of this rhetorical strategy is attributed to Michel Foucault by John Searle, regarding philosopher Jacques Derrida: " Michel Foucault once characterized Derrida's prose style to me as " obscurantisme terroriste.

For example, John Searle criticized Derrida's deconstruction for " obvious and manifest intellectual weaknesses " and, later, assorted signatories protested against the award of an honorary degree to Derrida by Cambridge University.

This view is still widely debated, and to answer criticisms, Searle has further developed the concept of institutional facts, for example, that a certain building is in fact a bank and that certain paper is in fact money, which would seem to depend upon general recognition of those institutions and their value.

In “ The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks ,” Crane writes that under Brooks ’ s view of a poem ’ s unity being achieved through the irony and paradox of the opposing forces it contains, the world ’ s most perfect example of such an ironic poem would be Albert Einstein ’ s equation E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup >, which equates matter and energy at a constant rate ( Searle ).

For example, it was recognized by J. J. Thomson in 1881 that a charged body is harder to set in motion than an uncharged body, which was worked out in more detail by Oliver Heaviside ( 1889 ) and George Frederick Charles Searle ( 1897 ).

Thus for example John Searle has offered an account of the construction of social reality fully compatible with the acceptance stance of “ the man who is at home in his society, the man who is chez lui in the social institutions of the society ... as comfortable as the fish in the sea ”.

For example, Searle notes that, in developing his " deconstruction " method, Jacques Derrida altered the truth value of one of Saussure's key concepts: " The correct claim that the elements of the language only function as elements because of the differences they have from one another is converted into the false claim that the elements [...] are ' constituted on ' ( Derrida ) the traces of these other elements.

Searle thought that the pervasiveness of social facts could disguise their social construction and ultimate reliance upon the brute fact: thua we are for example trained from infancy ( in his words ) to see " cellulose fibres with green and gray stains, or enamel-covered iron concavities containing water ... dollar bills, and full bathtubs ".

The second, which Searle now prefers but is less well known, is his ' syntax is not physics ' argument — nothing in the world is intrinsically a computer program except as applied, described or interpreted by an observer, so either everything can be described as a computer and trivially a brain can but then this does not explain any specific mental processes, or there is nothing intrinsic in a brain that makes it a computer ( program ).

* Searle, Leroy F. “ New Criticism .” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, second edition.

* Ballet Music-an introduction ( second revised edition ) by Humphrey Searle at archive. org

Ron Searle ( born July 19, 1919 ) was the second mayor of Mississauga, Ontario.

The attempt to launch a second Brisbane team failed and in 1999, Michael Searle, former Gold Coast Chargers player and Managing Director of International Sports Australia, formed a Gold Coast Bid Team.

" These replies question whether Searle is justified in using his own experience of consciousness to determine that it is more than mechanical symbol processing.

Searle has introduced the notion of an ' indirect speech act ', which in his account is meant to be, more particularly, an indirect ' illocutionary ' act.

Some of the main philosophers who have dealt with this issue are Marcus Aurelius, Omar Khayyám, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Baron d ' Holbach ( Paul Heinrich Dietrich ), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Arthur Schopenhauer, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Ralph Waldo Emerson and, more recently, John Searle, Ted Honderich, and Daniel Dennett.

Derrida would even argue that in a certain way he was more close to Austin, whereas Searle, in fact, was more close to the continental philosophers that Derrida tried to criticize.

Guardian art critic Adrian Searle was not impressed in 2001: he found that Serrano's photos were " far more about being lurid than anything else ...

Although Elizabeth Anscombe never employed the term " the direction of fit ", Searle has strongly argued that the following passage from her work Intention was, by far, " the best illustration " of the distinction between the tasks of " the words ( more strictly their propositional content ) to match the world … that of getting the world to match the words ":

" Reviewer Chris Searle defended accusations against Atzmon ’ s " crude anti-zionist rhetoric ,” writing “ No jazz musicians have done more to honour, publicise and spread solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinians than Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble .” John Mearsheimer has defended Atzmon, writing with regard to the charge that Atzmon is anti-semitic, " to be perfectly clear, he has no animus toward Judaism as a religion or with individuals who are Jewish by birth.

If the experiment were done in English, since Searle knows English, he would be able to take questions and give answers without any algorithms for English questions, and he would be affectively aware of what was being said and the purposes it might serve: Searle passes the Turing test of answering the questions in both languages, but he's only conscious of what he's doing when he speaks English.

In 1975 the Legislative Assembly became fully elected, and the first elected speaker David Searle, since 1905 presided over the Assembly.

* John Searle is a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley since 1959.

For all I know, Searle may only be behaving as if he were thinking deeply about these matters.

So therefore, if Searle is right, it's most likely that human beings ( as we see them today ) are actually " zombies ," who nevertheless insist they are conscious.

William Searle Holdsworth, one of Blackstone's successors as Vinerian Professor, argued that " if the Commentaries had not been written when they were written, I think it very doubtful that United States, and other English speaking countries would have so universally adopted the law ".

Searle recalled, " I desperately wanted to put down what was happening, because I thought if by any chance there was a record, even if I died, someone might find it and know what went on.

Searle further claimed that performatives are what he calls declarations ; this is a technical notion of Searle's account: according to his conception, an utterance is a declaration, if " the successful performance of the speech act is sufficient to bring about the fit between words and world, to make the propositional content true.