Professor John Searle

Slusser Professor of Philosophy

Office: 148 Moses Hall
   
Phone: (510) 642-3173
 
Mailing address:
Department of Philosophy
314 Moses Hall 2390
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2390

Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language
University of California, Berkeley
Education:
University of Wisconsin, 1949-52
Oxford University, 1952-59 (Rhodes Scholar)
Degrees: B.A. (Oxon., First Class Honours), 1955
M.A. (Oxon.), 1959
D. Phil. (Oxon.), 1959
Publications: (books only)
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969)
The Campus War (1971)
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts (1979)
Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983)
Minds, Brains and Science (1984)
The Foundations of Illocutionary Logic (with Daniel Vanderveken, 1985)
The Rediscovery of the Mind (1992)
The Construction of Social Reality (1995)
The Mystery of Consciousness (1997)
Mind, Language and Society, Philosophy in the Real World (1998)
Rationality in Action (2001)
Conversations with John Searle, Gustavo Feigenbaum (2001)
La Universidad Desafiada, el Ataque Postmodernista en las Humanidades y las
Ciencias Sociales, (2002)
Consciousness and Language, (2002)
For articles, reprints and translations see Bibliography.
There are translations into 21 languages
Major works about the work of John R. Searle:
Reinhard B. Nolte: Einfuehrung in die Sprechakttheorie John R. Searles (1978)
Versus, 26/27, (1980), "Speech Act Theory: Ten Years Later" (Special issue of periodical
devoted to the work of John R. Searle)
William Garnett, The Springs of Consciousness,. The 1984 Reith Lectures
of Professor Searle critically examined, (1987)
Ernest Lepore and Robert van Gulick (eds.): John Searle and his Critics, (1991)
Herman Parret, and Jef Vershueren, (eds.) (On) Searle on Conversation, (1992)
Eric Schaefer, Grenzen der Kuenstlichen Intelligenz, John R. Searle's Philosophie
Des Geistes, (1994)
Eric Dietrich, (ed.), Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons, (1994)
Wallace Matson, From Descartes to Searle, volume 2 of A New History
of Philosophy, (2000).
Francesca Di Lorenzo Ajello, Mente, azione e linguaggio nel pensiero di
John R. Searle, (1998)
Nick Fotion, John Searle, (2000)
William Hirstein, On Searle, (2001)
Searle – with his replies, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, June, 2001.
(Issue devoted to the work of John R.Searle, in the series: Contemporary
Philosophers, Philosophes contemporains.)
John Preston and Mark Bishop (eds.) Views into the Chinese Room, New Essays on Searle
and Artificial Intelligence, (2002)
“Symposium: The Ramifications of John Searle’s Social Philosophy in Economics”,
The Journal of Economic Methodology, March 2002. (Issue devoted to the work of John R. Searle.)
Gunther Grewendorf and Georg Meggle (eds), Speech Acts, Mind and Social Reality,
Discussions with John R. Searle (2002)
Conferences devoted to the work of John R. Searle:
Australian Philosophical Association meetings at the University of Queensland,
Brisbane, 1987.
Conference at University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Indiana, 1992
Argentine Philosophical Society Conference
Buenos Aires, 1998
Spanish Philosophical Association Conference at the Universita de la Laguna,
Tenerife, Canary Islands, 1997.
Conference at the Zentrum fuer interdisziplinaere Forschung, Bielefeld, Germany, 1999.
Conference at the University of Leipzig, Germany, 1999.
Plus conference sessions in the United States, Canada, England, Austria and Finland.

Honors and Awards:
Honorary Degrees: University of Torino, 2000
University of Bucharest, 2000
University of Wisconsin, 1994
Adelphi University, 1993
Jovellanos prize, Spain, 2000
Jean Nicod Prize, France, 2000
Tasan Award, Korea, 2000
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Fellow and Lecturer: World Economic Forum, Davos Switzerland, 1991, 1995, 1998, 2001
M.H. Wood Memorial Lecturer, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, 1994
Founders' Day Lecturer, Eastern Washington University, 1994
Homer Smith Award, New York University Medical School, 1993
Gordon Tomkins Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University
of California, San Francisco, 1993
Carl Gustav Hempel Lecturer, Princeton University, 1993
Thalheimer Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, 1992
Immanuel Kant Lecturer, Stanford University, 1992
Fellow of Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Italy, 1991
President of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 1990
Delegate from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, summer 1988
University of California Faculty Research Lecturer, 1986-87
Phi Beta Kappa, Romanell Lecturer, 1986-87
Fulbright Award, twice, 1985 and 1983 (unable to accept either appointment because of schedule conflicts)
Reith Lecturer, BBC, London, 1984
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 1982-83. (lecturing at numerous universities)
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1977--
U.C. Humanities Institute Research Fellowship, 1975-76
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975-76
NATO. Professorship, Oslo, Norway, 1971
U.C. Humanities Institute Research Fellowship, 1967-68
ACLS Study Fellowship, 1963-64
Senior Scholarship, St. Anthony's College, Oxford, 1955-56
Boulter Exhibition, Christ Church, Oxford, 1954-55
Rhodes Scholar, Oxford, 1952-55
Phi Beta Kappa, Junior Year, University of Wisconsin, 1952
Alumni Scholarship, University of Wisconsin, 1951-52
Student Body President, University of Wisconsin, 1951
Regular Teaching:
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1959 --
(Assistant Professor; 1959-64, Associate Professor 1964-67 -, Professor 1967 --)
Lecturer in Philosophy, Christ Church, Oxford, 1956-59

Visiting Posts:
Distinguished Austin J. Fogathey, S.J., Professor of Philosophy, Santa Clara University,
Santa Clara, California, Summer 1998
Visiting Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark, spring 1997
Visiting Professor, University of Rome (Roma III), Italy, spring, 1995
Visiting Professor, Universitaet Graz, Austria, spring, 1994
Visiting Professor, College de France, Paris, summer, 1992
Visiting Professor, Charles University, Prague, summer, 1991
Visiting Professor, College Internationale de Philosophie, Paris, summer 1991
Visiting Professor, Free University, Berlin, Germany, summer, 1990
Visiting Professor of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy, summer 1989
Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Winter 1986
Visiting Professor, University of Venice, Italy, Summer 1986
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, spring 1986
Visiting Professor, Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, summer 1985
Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, International Semiotics Institute, Toronto, Canada, summer 1982
Visiting Professor, University of Campinas, Brazil, summer 1981
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado autumn 1980
Rockefeller Scholar, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, summer 1976
Visiting Professor, University of Oslo, Norway, autumn 1971
Visiting Professor, SUNY, Buffalo, New York, Summer Linguistics Institute of the L.S.A., summer 1971
Visiting Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford, England, 1967-68
Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, summer 1963
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1961-62