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Conversations with History: John R. Searle

Conversations with History and Host Harry Kreisler welcome UC Berkeley Professor of Philosophy John R. Searle who talks about the work of a philosopher, critical thinking, and lessons of the Free S...  
 
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renumeratedfrog (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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WTF is he wearing?
aloofasalways (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I got a series of lectures by him from The Teaching Company and when he started explaining recursive decomposition it cracked me up every time he said "stupid homunculi"
mashmasher (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Dustin Hoffman could play this dude
JAYDUBYAH29 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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this is magnificent. love searle!
soursourapples (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Than kyou Mr A Chalmers for your original thoughts and contributions.
sdzeit (3 months ago) Show Hide
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man, that music at the start was rad...
jonobrow (4 months ago) Show Hide
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I love Searle. His actual philosophical beliefs are insane (Chinese Room amergument, combination of a first-person ontology with a belief in the causal closure of the material world), but he's a great speaker, both in clarity and content.
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@jonobrow

Would you mind being more specific about what it is about Searle's philosophical views that you find insane?
1234iloveparkdoor (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Aww, andrea. Still holding off on giving something other than a holding response? Is that because you've reached the limits of your lecture notes now?
kirshara (5 months ago) Show Hide
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21:40, but philosophy is not just conceptual clarification it is also reflection. even if science solves a problem there is still the opportunity for reflection. Thus philosophy does not ever really 'close up shop'.

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