How to study consciousness scientifically

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 379-387

  Searle, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Consciousness; Mind; Neurobiology

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROBIOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESEARCH;

EID: 0032079136     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(97)00047-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. J.R. Searle, Minds, Brains and Science, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984.
2. J.R. Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.
3. R. Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, especially Third Meditation (For example, "But in order for a given idea to contain such and such objective reality, it must surely derive it from some cause which contains at least as much formal reality as there is objective reality in the idea.") The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Vol. II, translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, D. Murdoch, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984.
4. Nagel Thomas What Is It Like to be a Bat? The Philosophical Review. LXXXIII(4):1974;435-450.
5. F. Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1994; Gerald Edelman, the Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness, Basic Books, New York, 1989.
6. J.R. Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992, Chapter 3.
7. J.R. Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992, Ch. 5, p. 111ff.
8. J.R. Searle, Minds, Brains, and Programs, in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1980, Vol. 3.