Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

464 pp.

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BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Bo Mou, Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Rochester, is Director of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at San Jose State University, USA. He has published in analytic philosophy, Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy, concerning philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophical methodology and ethics.

Readership

All those scholars and senior students who are interested in the central areas of Western philosophy in analytic tradition and/or in the fields of Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy and Asian studies.

Acknowledgments
Notes on Transcription
Contributors

Constructive-Engagement Movement in View of Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: A Theme Introduction, Bo Mou

Part One. Searle on Globalization of Philosophy
1. The Globalization of Philosophy, John R. Searle

Part Two. Constructive Engagement of Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy
A. Mind
2. Analysis of Searle’s Philosophy of Mind and Critique from a Neo-Confucian Point of View, Chung-ying Cheng
Reply to Chung-ying Cheng by John Searle
3. Wu-Wei, the Background, and Intentionality, Chris Fraser
Reply to Chris Fraser by John Searle
4. A Daoist Critique of Searle on Mind and Action, Joel W. Krueger
Reply to Joel W. Krueger by John Searle
5. The Philosopher and the Sage: Searle and the Sixth Patriarch on the Brain and Consciousness, Robert E. Allinson
Reply to Robert E. Allinson by John Searle
6. Searle and Buddhism on the Mind and the Non-Self, Soraj Hongladarom
Reply to Soraj Hongladarom by John Searle

B. Language
7. Reference, Truth, and Fiction, A. P. Martinich
Reply to A. P. Martinich by John Searle
8. How to Do Zen (Chan) with Words? An Approach of Speech Act Theory, Yiu-ming Fung
Reply to Yiu-ming Fung by John Searle
9. Searle, De Re Belief, and the Chinese Language, Marshall D. Willman
Reply to Marshall D. Willman by John Searle

C. Morality
10. Confucianism and the Is-Ought Question, A. T. Nuyen
Reply to A. T. Nuyen by John Searle
11. Xunzi on Capacity, Ability and Constitutive Rules, Kim-chong Chong
Reply to Kim-chong Chong by John Searle
12. Weakness of Will, the Background, and Chinese Thought, Kai-yee Wong & Chris Fraser
Reply to Kai-yee Wong & Chris Fraser by John Searle

D. Meta-philosophical and Methodological Issues
13. Searle on Knowledge, Certainty and Skepticism: in View of Cases in Western and Chinese Traditions, Avrum Stroll
Reply to Avrum Stroll by John Searle
14. Searle’s Theory of Intentionality as a Philosophical Method for Research in the Human Sciences, B. Jeannie Lum
Reply to B. Jeannie Lum by John Searle
15. Unconscious Intentionality and the Status of Normativity in Searle’s Philosophy: with Comparative Reference to Traditional Chinese Thought, Yujian Zheng
Reply to Yujian Zheng by John Searle
16. Searle, Zhuang Zi, and Transcendental Perspectivism, Bo Mou
Reply to Bo Mou by John Searle

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