The Rediscovery Of The Mind by John Rogers Searle
This book argues that consciousness and intentionality are real, causally efficacious biological phenomena that cannot be fully explained by computational or purely syntactic accounts of the mind. It defends a form of biological naturalism: mental states are caused by and realized in neurobiological processes, yet they have first-person qualitative features that resist reductive explanation. The author critiques strong AI, functionalism, and various reductionist and dualist positions, emphasizing that syntax alone cannot give rise to semantics and that philosophical accounts must respect the causal role of the brain while acknowledging the irreducibility of subjective experience. The work aims to reorient philosophy of mind toward an empirically informed account that preserves mental causation and explains how minds are both part of the natural world and distinct in their phenomenology.
- Published
- 1992
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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