Searle: Philosophy of Mind, lecture 9

John Searle

Philosophy of Mind, lecture 9

UC-Berkeley Philosophy 132, Spring 2011

MP3s of the entire course:

[reinerwilhelms-tricarico]

John Searle is more than a philosopher - he’s a genius standup comedian!

[Svetashev]

Outline:

5:45 - Reductionism
6:45 - Property dualism
11:12 - Mental states
15:26 - The content of the lecture
17:06 - Eliminative and non-eliminative reductions
22:10 - Connectionism
30:44 - The line between philosophical investigation and neurobiology
36:27 - Ontology and epistemology
47:50 - Nagel, Jackson and Kripke
1:01:49 - What do you know for a fact

[davidfost]

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

[MrPatrickDayKennedy]

Around 15m50s Searle mentions the "100 step argument" - what is this and who came up with it?

[reggenezrawhcsdlonra]

Questions I'd love to ask searle:-

observer relativity: could natural selection assign the semantics? does that even make sense?