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John Searle: Three Mistakes about Consciousness

Season 5 · Episode 13

Thursday, June 25, 2026 • Duration 59:28

John Searle considers three common philosophical claims about consciousness and finds them to be mistaken.

Subjective direct access does not give us certainty about our own conscious states.

There is no special faculty of introspection.

Consciousness does not always entail self-consciousness.

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John Searle: Consciousness, Intentionality and Causation

Season 5 · Episode 12

Thursday, June 4, 2026 • Duration 56:53

John Searle introduces the notion of intentionality as a key link between consciousness and causation.

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John Searle: The Function of Consciousness

Season 5 · Episode 11

Thursday, May 28, 2026 • Duration 54:04

John Searle asks what the function of consciousness is, taking an evolutionary perspective. How or why has it evolved? And what might that tell us about its causal power?

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John Searle: The Danger of Epiphenomenalism

Season 5 · Episode 10

Friday, May 22, 2026 • Duration 01:11:39

John Searle considers how his view differs from epiphenomenalism, which is the view that minds have no causal power over the body. He argues that such a view is not logically impossible, but believing that it is likely relies on several mistakes.

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John Searle: The Irreducibility of Consciousness

Season 5 · Episode 9

Friday, May 8, 2026 • Duration 26:34

John Searle asks whether consciousness can be reduced to the underlying brain processes. Can we give a complete account of mental phenomena purely in terms biochemical activity? If not, why not?

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John Searle: The Mind-Body Problem 2

Season 5 · Episode 8

Friday, May 1, 2026 • Duration 43:42

John Searle argues that we have to start with the facts we know and then we will be able to see how the mind fits in with science and metaphysics: consciousness is the higher level effect of lower level brain processes.

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John Searle: The Mind-Body Problem 1

Season 5 · Episode 8

Friday, April 24, 2026 • Duration 55:58

John Searle considers the incompatibility of dualism and materialism and argues that we should reject both, because they are based on faulty concepts.

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John Searle: Three Features of Consciousness

Season 5 · Episode 7

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 • Duration 01:10:39

John Searle lays out the three basic features that any theory of consciousness must account for. Conscious phenomena are inner, qualitative and ontologically subjective.

Searle also rejects the idea that consciousness cannot be studied by science.

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John Searle: Justification for External Realism and Beyond Atheism

Season 5 · Episode 6

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 • Duration 51:25

After considering, and dismissing, various arguments against External Realism, John Searle asks if there is a positive case for it.

He also considers how religion might factor into these questions of metaphysics and comes to surprising and interesting conclusion.

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John Searle: Skepticism, Knowledge and Reality

Season 5 · Episode 5

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 • Duration 43:21

John Searle analysis a typical argument for skepticism of the external world. We also discuss naive realism and some aspects of empiricism.

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