Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Searle is an internationally renowned authority on the philosophy of language and is well known for his influential works Brainstorms (1980), Speech Acts (1969) and Intentionality (1983). He has also published challenging essays on both Wittgenstein and Quine, as well as books on philosophy of mind, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.John Searle
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.John Searle
