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Minds Brains and Science

By John Searle

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1986
ISBN
0674576330, 9780674576339
LCC
BF161
Open Library ID
OL22300137M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
994 kB (1018085 bytes)
Pages
104\104
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

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? 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.

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