This philosopher critiqued Knapp and Michaels' "Against Theory" in a paper collected in Theory's Empire called "Literary Theory and its Discontents.
This philosopher critiqued Knapp and Michaels' "Against Theory" in a paper collected in Theory's Empire called "Literary Theory and its Discontents." That paper also forms part of his acrimonious debate with another philosopher, in which he claimed that deconstructionism fundamentally misapprehends basic principles in the philosophy of language, including the type-token distinction. He applied the concepts of conditions of satisfaction and directions of fit to (*) speech acts, and he adopted another idea from Anscombe in his book The Construction of Social Reality. His most famous argument uses the axiom that "Syntax by itself is neither constitutive of nor sufficient for semantics." The many replies to that argument include the system reply and Churchland's luminous room. For 10 points, name this philosopher who argued against strong AI in the Chinese room thought experiment.
This philosopher critiqued Knapp and Michaels' "Against Theory" in a paper collected in Theory's Empire called "Literary Theory and its Discontents.
John Searle