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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 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 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 -Body Problem 103

6 , Searle, and the Mind-Body Problem 105 ALAN CODE 7 Mind/Brain Science: Neuroscience on 115 WALTER J. FREEMAN AND CHRISTINE A. SKARDA 8 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 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 15 Intentionality DeRe 215 JOHN MCDOWELL 16 Response 227 Reference and Intentionality JOHN R. SEARLE

Part V The Background of Intentionality and 243

17 The Background of Thought 245 18 Intentionality and the Phenomenology of Action 259 JEROME WAKEFIELD AND 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: and Obligation 343

25 Searle on Ontological Commitment 345 26 Prima Facie Obligation: Its 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