About this Book

One of the most important and influential philosophers of the last 30 years, John Searle has been concerned with a single overarching question: how can we have a unified and theoretically satisfactory account of ourselves and of our relations to other people and to th e natural world? Gathering in an accessible manner essays available only in relatively obscure books and journals this collection will be of particular value to professionals and upper-level students in philosophy as well as to Searle's more extended audience in such fields as psychology and linguistics.