Table of Contents

* Introduction * Basic Metaphysics: Reality and Truth * How We Fit into the Universe: The Mind as a Biological Phenomenon * The Essence of the Mind: Consciousness and Its Structure * How the Mind Works: Intentionality * The Structure of the Social Universe: How the Mind Creates an Objective Social Reality * How Language Works: Speech as a Kind of Human Action

About the Author

John R. Searle was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1932. He attended the University of Wisconsin from 1949 to 1952 and studied at Oxford University, where he received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. Phil and was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught as a lecturer in philosophy at Christ Church in Oxford from 1956 to 1959 and since then has been a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also been a visiting professor at many universities, both in the US and abroad, including the universities of Syracuse, Rutgers, Colorado, SUNY Buffalo, Washington, Michigan, Venice, Florence, Frankfurt, Toronto, Campinas (Brazil), Oslo, Berlin, and Oxford.