JOHN SEARLE AND HIS CRITICS
Edited by Ernest Lepore and Robert Van Gulick
Basil Blackwell Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Editors' Introduction xi
Part I Meaning and Speech Acts 1
1 How do Gestures Succeed? 3 JONATHAN BENNETT 2 Comments on John Searle: "Meaning, Communication, and Representation" 17 JURGEN HABERMAS 3 Is Intentionality more Basic than Linguistic Meaning? 31 KARL OTTO APEL 4 Searle on Elocutionary Acts 57 WILLIAM P. ALSTON 5 Response 81 Meaning, Intentionality, and Speech Acts JOHN R. SEARLE
Part II The Mind-Body Problem 103
6 Aristotle, Searle, and the Mind-Body Problem 105 ALAN CODE 7 Mind/Brain Science: Neuroscience on Philosophy of Mind 115 WALTER J. FREEMAN AND CHRISTINE A. SKARDA 8 Consciousness and the Experience of Freedom 129 ALASTAIR HANNAY ° 9 Response 141 The Mind-Body Problem JOHN R. SEARLE
Part III Perception and the Satisfaction of Intentionality 147
10 Intentionality, Perception, and Causality: Reflections on John Searle's Intentionality 149 D. M. ARMSTRONG vi Contents
11 "I Believe that/)" 159 NORMAN MALCOLM 12 Perceptual Realism, Naive and Otherwise 169 EDDYM.ZEMACH 13 Response 181 Perception and the Satisfactions of Intentionality JOHN R. SEARLE
Part IV Reference and Intentionality 193
14 Vision and Intentional Content 195 TYLER BURGE 15 Intentionality DeRe 215 JOHN MCDOWELL 16 Response 227 Reference and Intentionality JOHN R. SEARLE
Part V The Background of Intentionality and Action 243
17 The Background of Thought 245 BARRY STROUD 18 Intentionality and the Phenomenology of Action 259 JEROME WAKEFIELD AND HUBERT DREYFUS 19 Searle's Theory of Action 271 BRIAN O'SHAUGHNESSY 20 Response 289 The Background of Intentionality and Action JOHN R. SEARLE
Part VI Social Explanation 301
21 On Searle's Argument against the Possibility of Social Laws 303 RAIMO TUOMELA 22 On Explanation in Psychology * 311 IRVINROCK 23 Intentionality, Narrativity, and Interpretation: The (New) Image of Man 323 CAROL FLEISHER FELDMAN 24 Response 335 Explanation in the Social Sciences JOHN R. SEARLE
Part VII Applications: Ontology and Obligation 343
25 Searle on Ontological Commitment 345 PETER VAN INWAGEN 26 Prima Facie Obligation: Its Deconstruction and Reconstruction 359 BARRY LOEWER AND MARVIN BELZER Contents vii
27 Non-Literal Speech Acts and Conversational Maxims 371 DANIEL VANDERVEKEN 28 Response 385 Applications of the Theory JOHN R. SEARLE
Selected Bibliography of the Works ofJ . R. Searle 393
Index r 403