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The Reith Lectures 1984

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Minds, Brains, and Science Six talks by John Searle, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
3: Grandmother Knew Best
'Some of the greatest intellectual efforts of the 20th century have attempted to get a science of human behaviour which was not just common-sense "grandmother" psychology, but was not scientific neuro-science either. Up to the present time, without exception, the efforts have been failures....'
In his third lecture, Professor Searle examines the new discipline of cognitive science - an attempt to discover a bridge between commonsense and science.

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