creators_name: Dennett, Daniel C
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-04-14
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:47
metadata_visibility: show
title: Review of Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind
ispublished: pub
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
abstract: Everyone agrees that consciousness is a very special phenomenon, unique in several ways, but there is scant agreement on just how special it is, and whether or not an explanation of it can be accommodated within normal science. John Searle's view, defended with passion in this book, is highly idiosyncratic: what is special about consciousness is its "subjective ontology," but normal science can accommodate subjective ontology alongside (not within) its otherwise objective ontology. Once we clear away some widespread confusions about what science requires, and dismiss the misbegotten field of cognitive science that has been engendered by those confusions, the subjective ontology of the mind, he claims, will lose its aura of unacceptable mystery.
date: 1993-04
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Philosophy
volume: 60
number: 4
pagerange: 193-205
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Dennett, Daniel C  (1993) Review of Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/277/1/searle.htm