This thinker's approach to consciousness and the mind-body problem is known as "biological naturalism", while an early paper of his which drew much criticism was "How to Derive 'Ought' from Is".
This thinker's approach to consciousness and the mind-body problem is known as "biological naturalism", while an early paper of his which drew much criticism was "How to Derive 'Ought' from Is". Borrowing a concept from Elizabeth Anscombe, he distinguished between "institutional" facts and "brute" facts in The Construction of Social Reality. He referred to humans' common assumptions and practices as the "Background" which is required for intentional states in his 1983 work Intentionality. This philosopher also developed a thought experiment to refute strong-AI, in which a person receives written words, feeds them to a computer, and sends back the computer's output. For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote 1969's Speech Acts, and who created the "Chinese Room" argument.
This thinker's approach to consciousness and the mind-body problem is known as "biological naturalism", while an early paper of his which drew much criticism was "How to Derive 'Ought' from Is".
John Searle