John R. Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Making the Social World. (January 2013)
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Can a Photodiode Be Conscious?
March 7, 2013
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Can Information Theory Explain Consciousness?
January 10, 2013
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
by Christof Koch
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The Mystery of Consciousness, Con’t.
September 29, 2011
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The Mystery of Consciousness Continues
June 9, 2011
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
by Antonio Damasio
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‘Is Just Thinking Enough?’
February 24, 2011
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‘Fear of Knowledge’: An Exchange
December 17, 2009
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Why Should You Believe It?
September 24, 2009
Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism
by Paul A. Boghossian
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Minding the Brain
November 2, 2006
Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness
by Nicholas Humphrey
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What Is Consciousness?
June 23, 2005
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Consciousness: What We Still Don’t Know
January 13, 2005
The Quest for Consciousness
by Christof Koch
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Chomsky’s Revolution: An Exchange
July 18, 2002
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‘Words and Rules’: An Exchange
June 27, 2002
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Chomsky’s Revolution
April 25, 2002
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‘Sneaked’ or ‘Snuck’?
March 14, 2002
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
by Steven Pinker
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End of the Revolution
February 28, 2002
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
by Noam Chomsky
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‘I Married a Computer’: An Exchange
May 20, 1999
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I Married a Computer
April 8, 1999
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil
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‘Consciousness and the Philosophers’: An Exchange
May 15, 1997
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Consciousness & the Philosophers
March 6, 1997
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers
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‘The Mystery of Consciousness’: An Exchange
December 21, 1995
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The Mystery of Consciousness: Part II
November 16, 1995
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
by Gerald M. Edelman
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind
by Gerald M. Edelman
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose
The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness
by Israel Rosenfield
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The Mystery of Consciousness
November 2, 1995
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose
The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness
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‘The Storm Over the University’: A Further Exchange
May 16, 1991
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‘The Storm Over the University’: An Exchange
February 14, 1991
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The Storm Over the University
December 6, 1990
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education
by Roger Kimball
The Politics of Liberal Education Winter 1990, Vol. 89, No. 1). edited by Darryl L. Gless, edited by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education edited by Timothy Fuller
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‘The Emperor’s New Mind’: An Exchange
June 14, 1990
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Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Room: An Exchange
February 16, 1989
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An Exchange on Deconstruction
February 2, 1984
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The Word Turned Upside Down
October 27, 1983
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan Culler
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The Myth of the Computer: An Exchange
June 24, 1982
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The Myth of the Computer
April 29, 1982
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter, by Daniel C. Dennett
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The Sleeping Chess Player
February 22, 1973
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A Special Supplement: Chomsky’s Revolution in Linguistics
June 29, 1972