TY  - BOOK
AU  - Searle,John R.
TI  - Freedom and neurobiology: reflections on free will, language, and political power 
T2  - Columbia themes in philosophy
SN  - 0231137524 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 123 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Free will and determinism
KW  - Neuropsychology
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - Lectures presented in French in 2001 at the Sorbonne; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : philosophy and the basic facts --; 1; Free will as a problem in neurobiology --; 2; Social ontology and political power
N2  - "In Freedom and Neurobiology, the philosopher John Searle discusses the possibility of free will within the context of contemporary neurobiology. He begins by explaining the relationship between human reality and the more fundamental reality as described by physics and chemistry. Then he proposes a neurobiological resolution to the problem by demonstrating how various conceptions of free will have different consequences for the neurobiology of consciousness." "In the second half of the book, Searle applies his theory of social reality to the problem of political power, explaining the role of language in the formation of our political reality. The institutional structures that organize, empower, and regulate our lives - money, property, marriage, government - consist in the assignment and collective acceptance of certain statuses to objects and people. Whether it is the president of the United States, a twenty-dollar bill, or private property, these entities perform functions as determined by their status in our institutional reality. Searle focuses on the political powers that exist within these systems of status functions and the way in which language constitutes them."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -