Searle var professoremeritus i filosofi vid University of California, Berkeley till 2019, då hans emeritus-status drogs tillbaka efter att det framkommit att Searle haft sexuella förhållanden med studenter i utbyte mot bland annat akademiska fördelar.[11]
Bibliografi (urval)
1969 – Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
1971 – The Campus War: A Sympathetic Look at the University in Agony
1979 – Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts
1983 – Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
1984 – Minds, Brains and Science: The 1984 Reith Lectures
1985 – Foundations of Illocutionary Logic
1992 – The Rediscovery of the Mind
1995 – The Construction of Social Reality
1997 – The Mystery of Consciousness
1998 – Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World
2001 – Rationality in Action
2002 – Consciousness and Language
2004 – Freedom and Neurobiology
2004 – Mind: A Brief Introduction
2008 – Philosophy in a New Century: Selected Essays
2010 – Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization
2015 – Seeing Things As They Are: A Theory of Perception