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John Searle

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John Rogers Searle ( ; born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. He began teaching at UC Berkeley in 1959 and was Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language and Professor of the Graduate School until June 2019, when his status as professor emeritus was revoked because he was found to have violated the university's sexual harassment policies. As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Searle was secretary of "Students against Joseph McCarthy". He received all his university degrees, BA, MA, and DPhil, from the University of Oxford, where he held his first faculty positions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Searle is the 339th most popular philosopher (up from 368th in 2019), the 1,085th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,022nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Philosopher.

John Searle is most famous for his Chinese Room argument.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, John Searle ranks 339 out of 1,267Before him are Martianus Capella, Han Yu, Jacobus Arminius, Nicolai Hartmann, Alexandre Kojève, and Judith Butler. After him are Johann Georg Hamann, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Nachmanides, David Strauss, Louis Couturat, and Rudolf Otto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, John Searle ranks 55Before him are Adolfo Suárez, V. S. Naipaul, Algirdas Brazauskas, Little Richard, Vladimir Ivashko, and Vytautas Landsbergis. After him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Ryszard Kapuściński, Robert Mundell, Hiroaki Sato, Ted Kennedy, and Stephen Covey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Searle ranks 1,085 out of 20,380Before him are Tobin Bell (1942), Donald J. Cram (1919), Roy Cohn (1927), Arthur Kennedy (1914), Leon M. Lederman (1922), and Richard Kiel (1939). After him are Keith Haring (1958), Ritchie Valens (1941), Carroll Shelby (1923), Richard Crenna (1926), Shelley Duvall (1949), and John L. Hall (1934).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, John Searle ranks 7Before him are Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), John Rawls (1921), George Herbert Mead (1863), Donald Davidson (1917), Pat Robertson (1930), and Judith Butler (1956). After him are Anne Sullivan (1866), Robert Nozick (1938), Richard Rorty (1931), Hilary Putnam (1926), Michael J. Sandel (1953), and Daniel Dennett (1942).