约翰·塞尔教授是当代知名度最高的分析哲学家之一。1969年,他从其导师奥斯汀那里发展而来的言语行为理论如今已成为语用学的重要内容,并广泛运用到计算机科学中。1983年塞尔提出的中文屋论证,至今仍然是认知科学和人工智能中的争论焦点。20世纪80年代末他提出的意向性理论现已成为和现象学的意向性理论相竞争的一种范式,他的生物学自然主义心身关系理论,构成了当代心灵哲学的重要部分。1995年,塞尔的《社会实在的建构》一书出版,他转向了社会哲学,新书《社会文明的结构》也于2012年出版。最近一年,他专注于知觉问题, Professor John Selle is one of the most prominent analytic philosophers in the contemporary age. The theory of speech acts that he developed from his mentor Austin in 1969 has now become an important part of pragmatics and is widely used in computer science. The proof of the Chinese house proposed by Searle in 1983 is still the focus of controversy in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. His intentionality theory put forward in the late 1980s has now become a paradigm that competes with phenomenological intentionality theory. His biological naturalistic psychosomatic relationship theory constitutes an important part of contemporary philosophy of mind. In 1995, Searle published his book Social Constructivism. He turned to social philosophy. His new book, The Structure of Social Civilization, was also published in 2012. In the recent year, he focused on perception issues,