Searle Central: Writings by Searle, or concerning Searle.
Entries pertaining to John Searle discovered primarily through David Chalmer's
directory of Online
Papers On Consciousness
John Searle, The
problem of consciousness
Selmer Bringsjord, Searle
on the brink
The Chinese room debate:
The Chinese
Room Argument (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
John Searle, Minds,
brains, and programs
John Searle, Is
the brain a digital computer?
Stevan Harnad, Minds,
machines, and Searle
Stevan Harnad et al, Symposium
on Symbolism, Connectionism, and the Chinese room
Stevan Harnad, Grounding
Symbols in the Analog World with Neural Nets -- A Hybrid Model
John Searle, The
Failures of Computationalism (A commentary on Stevan Harnad's preceding
article) Harnad
responds
David Harrison, Connectionism
hits the Chinese gym
Larry Hauser, The
Chinese room argument
Larry Hauser, Searle's
Chinese Box: The Chinese Room Argument and Artificial Intelligence
Larry Hauser, Searle's
Chinese box: Debunking the Chinese room argument
Diane Law, Searle,
subsymbolic functionalism, and synthetic intelligence (Compressed
PostScript)
William Rapaport, Understanding
understanding: Syntactic semantics and computational cognition
(PostScript)
MacLennan, B. J. (1993) Grounding
Analog Computers. Think 2 48-51.
MacLennan, B. J. (1994) Words
Lie in our Way. Minds and Machines 4 (4) 421-437.
MacLennan, B. J. (1995) The
investigation of consciousness through phenomenology and neuroscience.
In: Joseph King & Karl H. Pribram (eds.)
Scale in Conscious Experience: Third Appalachian
Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics, October. 23-43. Radford, Virginia.
Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah.
Velmans, M. (1990) Is
the Mind Conscious, Functional or Both? Behavioral and Brain Sciences
13 (4) 629-630.
Velmans, M. (1998) Goodbye
to Reductionism. In: S. Hameroff, A. Kaszniac & A. Scott (eds.)
Toward a Science of Consciousness: The Second
Tucson Discussions and Debates. MIT Press:
45-52.
- Dictionary
of Philosophy of Mind - Searle, John
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Searle, John - (b. 1932, Denver, CO; Ph.D. philosophy, Oxford; currently
Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley.) In philosophy of mind, Searle is known
for his critique of computationalism, his theory of intentionality, and his
work on the problem of
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of Philosophy of Mind - the background
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the background - A set of nonrepresentational capacities that enable all
representing to take place. The Background includes biological and cultural
capacities, skills, stances, assumptions and presuppositions. Introduced in
Searle (1978). See also i
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of Philosophy of Mind - intention-in-action
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intention-in-action - The intentional or mental component of an action.
The intention in action causes, and is contemporaneous with, the agent's bodily
movement or state that is its condition of satisfaction. Introduced in Searle
1983. See also inten
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of Philosophy of Mind - Chinese room
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Chinese room -An argument forwarded by John Searle intended to show that
the mind is not a computer and how the Turing Test is inadequate. See artificial
intelligence, Turing Test, Searle. [Introduction][Replies][References] Introduction
Searle first
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of Philosophy of Mind - prior intention
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prior intention - Intention formed prior to the action that is its condition
of satisfaction. The prior intention represents the projected action as a
unified whole. Introduced in Searle 1983. See also intentionality, intention-in-action.
Some action
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of Philosophy of Mind - tacit knowledge
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tacit knowledge - Knowledge that enters into the production of behaviors
and/or the constitution of mental states but is not ordinarily accessible
to consciousness. See also cognize, knowledge, implicit memory, Background,
rules. [Introduction][Varie
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of Philosophy of Mind - phenomenological critique of representationalism
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phenomenological critique of representationalism - Rejection of the
notion that representational states define and explain the most basic kind
of human interaction with the environment. See also representation, phenomenology,
intention-in-action, Bac
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of Philosophy of Mind - functionalism(2)
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functionalism(2) - An explanatory approach to behavior and the constitution
of cognitive states that regards particular behaviors and cognitive structures
and capacities as playing functional roles in particular domains or contexts.
See also function
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of Philosophy of Mind - materialism
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materialism - The view that everything that actually exists is material,
or physical. Many philosophers and scientists now use the terms `material'
and `physical' interchangeably (for a version of physicalism distinct from
materialism, see physicalis
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of Philosophy of Mind - silicon chip thought experiment
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silicon chip replacement thought experiment - A thought experiment proposed
to support the notion of causal functionalism in Pylyshyn (1980) To begin
the thought experiment, imagine that you are the subject of some mental event--perhaps
you are exper
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of Philosophy of Mind - aspectual shape
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aspectual shape - Similar to the notion of sense. Introduced by
Searle (1992). Chris Eliasmith References
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