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• Lepore, E. and van Gulick, R. (eds.), 1991. John Searle and his Critics, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Tsohatzidis, S. (ed.), 2007. John Searle’s Philosophy of Language: Force, Meaning and Mind, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Warnock, G. (ed.), 1973. Essays on J. L. Austin, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1989. J. L. Austin, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)