Consciousness and Language - Paperbackby John R. Searle (Author) One of the most important and influential philosophers of the last 30 years, John Searle has been concerned throughout his career with a single overarching question: how can we have a unified and theoretically satisfactory account of ourselves and of our relations to other people and to the natural world? In other words, how can we reconcile our common sense conception of ourselves as conscious, free, mindful, rational