The Rediscovery Of The Mind

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262261138

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The Rediscovery of the Mind by John R. Searle Pdf

In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of consciousness that results in so much barrenness and sterility in psychology, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science: there can be no study of mind that leaves out consciousness. What is going on in the brain is neurophysiological processes and consciousness and nothing more—no rule following, no mental information processing or mental models, no language of thought, and no universal grammar. Mental events are themselves features of the brain, "like liquidity is a feature of water." Beginning with a spirited discussion of what's wrong with the philosophy of mind, Searle characterizes and refutes the philosophical tradition of materialism. But he does not embrace dualism. All these "isms" are mistaken, he insists. Once you start counting types of substance you are on the wrong track, whether you stop at one or two. In four chapters that constitute the heart of his argument, Searle elaborates a theory of consciousness and its relation to our overall scientific world view and to unconscious mental phenomena. He concludes with a criticism of cognitive science and a proposal for an approach to studying the mind that emphasizes the centrality of consciousness to any account of mental functioning. In his characteristically direct style, punctuated with persuasive examples, Searle identifies the very terminology of the field as the main source of truth. He observes that it is a mistake to suppose that the ontology of the mental is objective and to suppose that the methodology of a science of the mind must concern itself only with objectively observable behavior; that it is also a mistake to suppose that we know of the existence of mental phenomena in others only by observing their behavior; that behavior or causal relations to behavior are not essential to the existence of mental phenomena; and that it is inconsistent with what we know about the universe and our place in it to suppose that everything is knowable by us.

Author : John Rogers Searle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1081687170

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The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Rogers Searle Pdf

Author : Marvin Minsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780671657130

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Society Of Mind by Marvin Minsky Pdf

Computing Methodologies -- Artificial Intelligence.

Author : John R. Searle,Daniel Clement Dennett,David John Chalmers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 1862070741

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The Mystery of Consciousness by John R. Searle,Daniel Clement Dennett,David John Chalmers Pdf

What started as a two-part essay in the New York Review of Books, this work discusses well-known thinkers, such as Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett, Israel Rosenfeld and David Chalmers.

Author : John R Searle
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780786723874

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Mind, Language And Society by John R Searle Pdf

Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any confidence. John Searle brings these notions down from their abstract heights to the terra firma of real-world understanding, so that those with no knowledge of philosophy can understand how these principles play out in our everyday lives. The author stresses that there is a real world out there to deal with, and condemns the belief that the reality of our world is dependent on our perception of it.

Author : Gert J. J. Biesta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317208112

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The Rediscovery of Teaching by Gert J. J. Biesta Pdf

The Rediscovery of Teaching presents the innovative claim that teaching does not necessarily have to be perceived as an act of control but can be understood and configured as a way of activating possibilities for students to exist as subjects. By framing teaching as an act of dissensus, that is, as an interruption of egological ways of being, this book positions teaching at the progressive end of the educational spectrum, where it can be reconnected with the emancipatory ambitions of education. In conversation with the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Paulo Freire, Jacques Rancière, and other theorists, Gert Biesta shows how students’ existence as subjects hinges on the creation of existential possibilities, through which students can assert their "grown-up" place in the world. Written for researchers and students in the areas of philosophy of education, educational theory, curriculum theory, teaching, and teacher education, The Rediscovery of Teaching demonstrates the important role of teachers and teaching in the project of education as emancipation towards grown-up ways of being in the world.

Author : David R. Olson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521532116

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Psychological Theory and Educational Reform by David R. Olson Pdf

For well over a century educational reformers have looked for a breakthrough in the sciences of psychology and pedagogy that would dramatically improve the effectiveness of schooling. This book shows why such an ambition is an illusion. Schools are institutions which attempt to balance the needs of a bureaucratic society that funds them with the personal goals, interests, hopes and ambitions of the students who enroll in them. Reform efforts attempt to realign that balance without any clear conception of how the two are related. This book offers a theoretical account of the relation between the minds of learners and the institutional structure of the school that would account both for the ways that schooling remakes minds and societies and why such institutions are resistant to change.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521597447

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Consciousness and Language by John R. Searle Pdf

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Author : Angus J. L. Menuge
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742534049

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Agents Under Fire by Angus J. L. Menuge Pdf

In Agents Under Fire, Menuge defends a robust notion of agency and intentionaility against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives, showing the interconnections between the philosophy of mind, theology, and Intelligent Design.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199882687

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Mind by John R. Searle Pdf

"The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." One of the world's most eminent thinkers, Searle dismantles these theories as he presents a vividly written, comprehensive introduction to the mind. He begins with a look at the twelve problems of philosophy of mind--which he calls "Descartes and Other Disasters"--problems which he returns to throughout the volume, as he illuminates such topics as materialism, consciousness, the mind-body problem, intentionality, mental causation, free will, and the self. The book offers a refreshingly direct and engaging introduction to one of the most intriguing areas of philosophy.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199385157

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Seeing Things as They are by John R. Searle Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the objective field. Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction between different levels of perception from the basic level to the higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the experience. The account applies not just to language possessing human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.

Author : Gilbert Ryle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0226732959

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The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle Pdf

This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory, " the Cartesian "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical problams as dissolving them into the mere consequences of misguided language. His plain language and essentially simple purpose put him in the tradition of Locke, Berkeley, Mill, and Russell - philisophers whose best work, like Ryle's, has become a part of our general literature.

Author : Peter H. Kahn (Jr.),Patricia H. Hasbach
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780262018739

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The Rediscovery of the Wild by Peter H. Kahn (Jr.),Patricia H. Hasbach Pdf

A compelling case for connecting with the wild, for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature--a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity of connecting with wild nature--untamed, unmanaged, not encompassed, self-organizing, and unencumbered and unmediated by technological artifice. We can love the wild. We can fear it. We are strengthened and nurtured by it. As a species, we came of age in a natural world far wilder than today's, and much of the need for wildness still exists within us, body and mind. The Rediscovery of the Wild considers ways to engage with the wild, protect it, and recover it--for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species. The contributors offer a range of perspectives on the wild, discussing such topics as the evolutionary underpinnings of our need for the wild; the wild within, including the primal passions of sexuality and aggression; birding as a portal to wildness; children's fascination with wild animals; wildness and psychological healing; the shifting baseline of what we consider wild; and the true work of conservation.

Author : Jack Reynolds,James Chase,James Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826424419

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Postanalytic and Metacontinental by Jack Reynolds,James Chase,James Williams Pdf

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674267213

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Minds, Brains and Science by John R. Searle Pdf

Minds, Brains and Science takes up just the problems that perplex people, and it does what good philosophy always does: it dispels the illusion caused by the specious collision of truths. How do we reconcile common sense and science? John Searle argues vigorously that the truths of common sense and the truths of science are both right and that the only question is how to fit them together. Searle explains how we can reconcile an intuitive view of ourselves as conscious, free, rational agents with a universe that science tells us consists of mindless physical particles. He briskly and lucidly sets out his arguments against the familiar positions in the philosophy of mind, and details the consequences of his ideas for the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, questions of action and free will, and the philosophy of the social sciences.