Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Searle, J.R. (2004). Mind: A brief introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. It needs to be at least 1000 words.

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Searle, J.R. (2004). Mind: A brief introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. It needs to be at least 1000 words. One would argue that Searle is more ambitious in his brief introduction when he argues that there is need for a radical break from the whole tradition after Cartesian and subsequently, all of its conceptual frameworks (Searle, 2004). This paper reviews Searle, J.R. (2004). Mind: A brief introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press by trying to point out and discuss some of the major issues and concepts raised by this author in the book. Mind: A brief introduction Review It appears that according to Searle, the human mind could be delinked from its biological form and that this mind could occur as forming part of the nature itself. The main concepts that appear in this book are the dualism arguments by Descartes, the emergence of materialism in the contemporary thoughts of trying to adapt to the issues of artificial intelligence and the ideas of social science together with its theories. Searle notes that the mind’s philosophy is very unique when it comes to the pool of philosophical subjects. He attributes this argument on the basis of these philosophical subjects being false despite their fame and influence in philosophical thinking. When he refers to theories, Searle implies all forms of positions held by dualists and the materialistic approaches fronted by others. The truths and lies are thought of as being able to fit within the realms of the human mind and then relating this to the natural world (Searle, 2004). The biggest problem with many philosophers originates from their conceptualization of the minds in their scholarly arguments. People do believe in the dualism in which case man is endowed with both mind and body. The philosophers in the current world do believe in the application of materialism and shunning immaterialism as far as the soul is concerned (Searle, 2004). The dozen problems that Searle tries to explain here, he alleges originate from the legacy left by Descartes towards philosophical thinking. The dozen problems he points out are the classical ‘mind-body problem’ where he argues that the body and mind do belong to very different and quite incompatible metaphysical orientations which are physical and spiritual in nature (Searle, 2004). The other problem is that of other minds where the mental lives of other beings could only be inferred to thus legitimizing the existing sceptical perceptions envisaging their ownership of a mind. The third problem Searle identifies scepticism of the external world and this is coupled with the fourth problem of perception analysis. Perception seems as the most obvious route to gain entry into the external world. Ideas mediate perception and access to the external world. The fifth problem is that of free will. Even when the process of making decisions is as a result of the inability to establish the degree of quantum of events by use of the mind, the outcome would not give man the free will. It would rather provide a simple random element that is not predictable in the behaviour and decisions made. The sixth problem identified is the ‘self and personal identity’ in regard to the facts of experience and person over time (Searle, 2004). In the seventh problem, Searle debates whether animals have minds or not.