Thanks much for this. I just ordered a used copy--the last one!--from Amazon. You may like John Searle’s Philosophy of Consciousness course on YouTube. It’s his entire course at UC Berkeley in maybe 2015? If you aren’t deep into Searle-ishness already, you’ll love his lectures. He’s got one on Language that is great, too. One summer I listened to both,
I think the precise title of the course is “philosophy of mind.” Consciousness is front and center. Searle’s Chinese room argument from decades ago is in the Turing test realm. My field is Language and Lieracy; Searle is foundational there with his theoretical framework of the speech act, which has been useful to me in several contexts,
Thanks much for this. I just ordered a used copy--the last one!--from Amazon. You may like John Searle’s Philosophy of Consciousness course on YouTube. It’s his entire course at UC Berkeley in maybe 2015? If you aren’t deep into Searle-ishness already, you’ll love his lectures. He’s got one on Language that is great, too. One summer I listened to both,
Oh great! I know Searle's name, and have vaguely good associations, but otherwise he's a complete blank spot for me, very eager to fill it in.
I think the precise title of the course is “philosophy of mind.” Consciousness is front and center. Searle’s Chinese room argument from decades ago is in the Turing test realm. My field is Language and Lieracy; Searle is foundational there with his theoretical framework of the speech act, which has been useful to me in several contexts,