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Tram Nguyen SID 14732604 October 24 2002 Philosophy 132 Professor J. Searle GSI Ben Callard Searle's solution to the mind-body problem (#1) Searle's solution to the mind-body problem is Biological Naturalism (BN), a doctrine that consists in two theses: 1) Brains cause minds. 2) Mental states are features of brains. To understand these two theses, Searle proposes that we first emancipate ourselves from the vocabulary of the old Cartesian, dualistic world-view in which mind and matter are two separate entities, and that furthermore, the mental and the physical are two separate spheres. Rejecting such a Cartesian vocabulary would then allow us to see the consistency of the two theses in respect to each other, as well as in respect to the current "scientific" world-view. Since Searle argues for his two theses by appealing to this scientific world-view to, this view should be briefly explained here. For Searle, the "scientific" world-view comprises of two main theories: atomic theory and biological...

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