John Searle is Mills Professor of
Philosophy at the
University of California, Berkeley, and is noted for contributions on the nature of
language,
philosophy of mind and
consciousness, and on the characteristics of socially constructed versus physical realities. (Note, however, that Searle's
The Construction of Social Reality is not at all about
social construction, at least according to
Ian Hacking[?]'s
The Social Construction of What.)
One of his chief contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence was proposing the Chinese Room critique.