TY - BOOK TI - The Mysteries of Logic and the Secret of Subjectivity DA - 1996/// PY - 1996/// ER - TY - CONF TI - Toward an evangelical environmental ethic AU - Comstock, G. L. A2 - S. M. Postiglione, A2 - Brungs, R. C2 - 1996/// C3 - Christianity and the environmental ethos DA - 1996/// SP - 69-85 PB - St. Louis: ITEST Faith/Science Press SN - 1885583044 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Searle, syntax, and observer relativity AU - Endicott, R. T2 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy AB - In his book The Rediscovery of the Mind (hereafter RM), John Searle attacks computational psychology with a number of new and boldly provocative claims. Specifically, in the penultimate chapter entitled ‘The Critique of Cognitive Reason,’ Searle targets what he calls ‘cognitivism,’ according to which our brains are digital computers that process a mental syntax. And Searle denies this view on grounds that the attribution of syntax is observer relative. A syntactic property is arbitrarily assigned to a physical system, he thinks, with the result that syntactic states ‘do not even exist except in the eyes of the beholder’ (RM, 215). This unabashed anti-realism differs significantly from Searle's earlier work. The Chinese room argument, for example, was intended to show that syntactic properties will not suffice for semantics, where the syntax was realistically construed. But now Searle claims that physical properties will not suffice to determine a system's syntactic properties. DA - 1996/// PY - 1996/// DO - 10.1080/00455091.1996.10717446 VL - 26 IS - 1 SP - 101-122 ER - TY - BOOK TI - Jewish apocalyptic heritage in early Christianity CN - BS1705 .J48 1996 DA - 1996/// PY - 1996/// PB - Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum; Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press SN - 0800629728 ER - TY - BOOK TI - A master of the century past AU - Metzger, R. S. CN - PS3563 .E7464 M37 1996 DA - 1996/// PY - 1996/// PB - Savannah, Ga.: Frederic C. Beil SN - 0913720879 ER -