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John R. Searle: Speech Acts. An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1969, 203 S. (dt.: Sprechakte. Ein sprachphilosophischer Essay, Frankfurt 1983, 305 S.)

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John R. Searle (geb. 1932) ist Professor für Philosophie an der University of California at Berkeley und Autor zahlreicher Bücher aus den Feldern der Sprachphilosophie und der Philosophie des Geistes. Neben Speech Acts zählen zu seinen wichtigsten Werken Intentionality, An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983), The Construction of Social Reality (1995), Mind, Language and Society. Philosophy in the Real World (1998), Rationality in Action (2001) und Making the Social World.

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