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Journal Article
The Common Sense of John Searle
2025
Overview
According to a criterion for intelligence proposed by the mathematician Alan Turing, if a machine could, in response to questions, produce answers that were indistinguishable from those a human being might give, then we would have every reason to judge that it was literally intelligent. Searle's first book, Speech Acts, which built on the work of his teacher J. L. Austin, was among several key texts that led Anglo-American philosophers to take a more nuanced approach to language and its multifarious uses. When he emphasized the continuity of human beings with the larger natural world, he sometimes sounded like he was offering just another riff on materialism.
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Institute of Religion and Public Life
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