Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality

• Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality.- Interview with John R. Searle.- Speech Acts.- How Performatives Don’t Work.- Are Performative Utterances Declarations?.- Expressibility, Explicability, and Taxonomy. Some Remarks on the Principle of Expressibility.- Expressing an Intentional State.- On the Proper Treatment of Performatives.- Why Do We Mean Something Rather Than Nothing?.- What Is an Illocutionary Point?.- Searle on Meaning and Action.- MIND.- Understanding Utterances and Other Actions.- Intrinsic Intentionality.- Causal Reduction, Ontological Reduction, and First-Person Ontology. Notes on Searle’s Views about Consciousness.- The Hidden Algebra of the Mind from a Linguistic Perspective.- Identification and Misidentification.- Social Reality.- Searle on Social Reality: Process Is Prior to Product.- On Searle’s Collective Intentionality. Some Notes.- Searle’s Theory of Institutional Facts: A Program of Critical Revision.- True Reality and Real Truth.- Searle, Collective Intentionality, and Social Institutions.- New Perspectives.- The Classical Model of Rationality and Its Weaknesses.- Contributors.

"a valuable resource for those interested in all three of the main areas of Searle's philosophical inquiry." (Savas L. Tsohatzidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Pragmatics & Cognition, 12.1)