John Searle
John Rogers Searle was an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. He began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1959 and was Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language and Professor of the Graduate School until June 2019, when his status as professor emeritus was revoked after he was found to have engaged in sexual harassment and retaliation against a former student and employee, in violation of the university's sexual harassment policies.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Denver
- Educated at
- Christ ChurchUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonShorewood High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Jean Nicod Prize🏆 Rhodes Scholarship🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 National Humanities Medal🏆 Albertus-Magnus professorate
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Peter Geach
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Bence Nanay
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Trending topics shown first"The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assert…"
"Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness."
"I have only one real message in this lecture, and that is: consciousness is a biological phenomenon, like photosynthesis, digestion, mitosis—you know all the biological phenomena—and once you accept t…"
"We often attribute "understanding" and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions."
"The student should have enough knowledge of his or her cultural tradition to know how it got to be the way it is. This involves both political and social history, on the one hand, as well as the maste…"
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Timeline
1932
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Died
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