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Searle's Experiments with Thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

William J. Rapaport
William J. Rapaport*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo
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John Searle's provocative essay, “Minds, Brains, and Programs“ (1980), with its Chinese-room thought experiment (see the Appendix), has generated a great deal of interest and controversy among philosophers, computer scientists, and cognitive scientists.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 271 - 279
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1986

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Footnotes

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An earlier version of this essay was presented as comments on Cole (1984) at the American Philosophical Association Western Division Colloquium on Cognitive Science, 26 April 1984. I am grateful to Andrea Schnall and to my colleagues in the SUNY Fredonia Department of Philosophy–Jane Kneller, Marvin Kohl, Michael Losonsky, Kenneth G. Lucey, and Morton L. Schagrin–for their comments on earlier drafts.

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