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The Reith Lectures 1984

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Minds, Brains, and Science Six talks by John Searle, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
5: A Changing Reality
'According to the standard theory of scientific explanation, explaining a phenomenon consists in showing how its occurrence follows from certain scientific laws. Now, whatever merit this type of explanation may have in the natural sciences, it is quite worthless to us in explaining human behaviour.' In his fifth lecture, Professor Searle discusses one of the most vexing intellectual problems of the present era:
Why have the methods of the physical sciences failed to help us to understand ourselves?
'Minds, Brains, and Science' is available from booksellers (after 7 December): £5.25 paperback, £8.95 hardback

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