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We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, a...

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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

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Born: 1932-07-31

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John Rogers Searle (born July 31, 1932) is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, and is noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and consciousness, on the characteristics of socially constructed versus physical realities, and on practical reason. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 2000.More

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