John Searle. Mind: A Brief Introduction

Dialogue between John Searle and Crea

Language and Social Sciences includes new and inedited contributions from Searle and Crea about topics such as speech acts and postmodernism. Their analyses of the relation between language and social sciences clarify their respective critiques to Habermas’ conception of speech acts and contribute specific insights that help to distinguish a free communicative act from one that includes psychol...

Searle The Rediscovery of the Mind

neurolaw: a brief introduction.

neurolaw, as an interdisciplinary field which links the brain to law, facilitates the pathway to better understanding of human behavior in order to regulate it accurately through incorporating neuroscience achievements in legal studies. since 1990's, this emerging field, by study on human nervous system as a new dimension of legal phenomena, leads to a more precise explanation for human behavio...

John Nash and A Beautiful Mind

J ohn Forbes Nash Jr. published his first paper with his father at age seventeen. His thesis, at age twenty-one, presented clear and elementary mathematical ideas that inaugurated a slow revolution in fields as diverse as economics, political science, and evolutionary biology. During the following nine years, in an amazing surge of mathematical activity, he sought out and often solved the tough...

A Brief History of Mind

My aim is to give an overview of what minds are and how they came to be. Minds are a product of billions of years of evolution so it is a daunting task to summarize this history in 45 minutes. My attempt will involve vast oversimplifications, highly speculative and condensed “just so” stories, and a great amount of hand waving. In particular, I will presuppose the theory of evolution and will n...