As I have promised in one of my previous message to the LO list, about
posting more references regarding AI, computers and Cognitive Science...
so here is some--
John R. Searle, Mills Professor of Mind and Language in the Department of
Philosophy --His major interests are in philosophy of language,
metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of action. He is also the
author of Speech Acts (1969), The Campus war(1971), Expression and
Meaning(1979), Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind(1983),
Minds, Brains, and Science(1984), Foundations of Illocutionary Logic(with
Daniel Vanderverken)(1985), The Rediscovery of the Mind(1992), and The
Construction of Social Reality(1995)
Distinguished Teaching Award: John R. Searle is at
<http://www.uga.berkeley.edu/sled/dta99/searle.html>
[From the article: When he teaches in other countries, John R. Searle,
Mills Professor of Mind and Language in the Department of Philosophy,
says, "The first thing I have to do is train my students to act like
Berkeley students. They are not used to asking questions in a way that
challenges the professor while being at the same time respectful and
observant of the rigorous logical standrards of the discipline....by the
end of the semester they are raising their hands and arguing with me as
vigorouosly as my Berkeley students." **A wonderful philosophy to train
the students**] Students flourish and enhance his learning under his
guidance!
>From his Philosophy of Mind teaching..to explore certain traditional
problems in the philosophy of mind in terms of recent work of philosophy
and cognitive science. He has discussed about such traditional problems as
the mind-body problem, the nature of intentionality, and the nature of
consciousness in light of recent discussions which use computer models of
cognition or which try to cast doubt on our ordinary, common-sense
conceptions of the mental. These views include functionalism, artificial
intelligence, eliminative materialism, parallel distributed processing,
and others. He has also discussed in his teaching of Philosophy of
Language, How does language relate to the world?
More about his courses members can be read at
<http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~frege/classes-fall99.html#Philosophy_132>
-- His latest papers--
On Consciousness, he wrote one paper at
<http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Ejsearle/html/consciousness.html>
In the paper, he has discussed ..Two common approaches to
consciousness..those adopt the building block model..Consciousness is
entirely caused by neurobiological processes and is realized in brain
structures..
The Future of Philosophy [This particular article he wrote for the
millennium proceedings of the Royal Society] can be read at
<http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Ejsearle/html/future_of philosophy.html>
In this paper, He has remarkably presented the difference between science
and philosophy..Philosophical problems tend to have three related features
that scientific problems do not have..Are you curious, then please read
the above paper!
Thank you!
Kind Regards
Arun Tripathi
--Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
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