華梵大學哲學系九十五學年度上學期課程說明

課程名稱	Searle’s Philosophy (瑟爾的哲學)
授課教師	冀劍制, 薈101, email: cchi@cc.hfu.edu.tw; office hours: Mon:3,4; Tue:1,2
上課方式	全英語課程(以英語授課、以英語發問、以英語考試與作答、寫英文論文)。
課程大綱	Searle是當代還活著的哲學家中最具重要性的人之一﹐他所提出的幾個理論都成為廣被討論的話題﹐例如﹐ 說話行為論(speech act theory)、人工智慧的中文屋論證(Chinese room argument)、其對心物問題的分析、以及其所提出的社會本體論觀點等等。
Textbook	Searle, John (1984). Mind, Brain and Science. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Suggest Readings	Smith, Berry (ed.) (2003). John Searle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Searle, John (1992). The Rediscovery of the Mind. MA: The MIT Press. Searle, John (1995). The Construction of Social Reality. New York: The Free Press.
課程主題	1. The mind-body problem. What is the mind-body problem? What are the main theories to deal with this problem? What does Searle think about this? In this subject, you have to know materialism, physicalism, identity theory, behaviorism, functionalism, substance dualism, property dualism, expansionism, and eliminative materialism. 2. Can computers think? In this subject you have to know how computer works, what Turing machine is, what Turing Test is, and what Chinese Room Argument is. 3. Cognitive science What is cognitive science? How it may let us know something about our cognition? How computer science, neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, philosophy and etc. can be helpful to let us know more about human cognition. 4. The structure of action In this subject, you have to know Searle’s theory of action, which includes what action is, how it is related to and different from behavior and how it is related to his theories of mind and artificial intelligence. 5. The freedom of the will We believe human beings have free will and we also believe that the natural science is a true description of the universe, which includes human beings. But these two do not seem compatible to each other. How can we deal with this problem?
成績計算方式	期中考(midterm exam)20%, 期末論文(final paper)20%, 作業(homeworks)20%, 學習態度(出席率、上課討論) 40%