Abstract

DE ATHAYDE PRATA, Tárik. The dualistic character of john searle's philosophy of mind. discus.filos [online]. 2014, vol.15, n.25, pp.43-62. ISSN 0124-6127.

This paper holds that Searle's biological naturalism is a variant of property dualism. After an exam of the mind-body problem and of property dualism (section 2), and after an exposition of biological naturalism (section 3), I engage in a critical discussion of Searle's view about ontological subjectivity (section 4), a view that leads biological naturalism to a dualism between objective and subjective properties (section 5).

Keywords : Property dualism; biological naturalism; mind-body problem.

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