Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) / quote 7 of 138

The standard views in philosophy of mind are false

I write out of the conviction that the philosophy of mind is the most important subject in contemporary philosophy and that the standard views—dualism, materialism, behaviorism, functionalism, computationalism, eliminativism, epiphenomenalism—are false.

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