Phlilosophy and Common Sense: John Searle


	Phlilosophy and Common Sense: John Searle

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1-17-2008 2:58 AM

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Interesting review of Searle's philosophical approach and, her, his ideas on consciousness.

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philosophy has become a dry and technical business. Most philosophers today
write only for other philosophers about issues that can accurately be termed
scholastic. Against this background, Searle is a beacon of accessible
expertise, a throwback to a time when philosophy was part of public debate.
His work is devoted to some of the most fundamental questions in philosophy,
yet he never gets bogged down in the kind of esoteric disputation that
forgets why the issues matter in the first place.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3196720.ece">Whenever he is faced with a conflict between common sense and arcane
philosophical doctrine, he backs common sense every time. He may no longer
appeal to the authority of “ordinary language”, but he remains suspicious of
the pretensions of philosophical argument to overturn everyday opinion.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3196720.ece"><DIV id="main-article"><DIV class="article-author"><SPAN class="byline">
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John Searle
FREEDOM AND NEUROBIOLOGY 
128pp. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. £16.
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