I am 30 minutes into this interview and I have learned nothing. I have a degree in philosophy and another in neuroscience. This is odd.

when you talked visual perception, nothing was discussed about a blind person's perception?

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Is it unseemly to differ with a writer on his own fictional creation? Richard Ford and I didn't always see eye to eye on his favorite protagonist, Frank Bascombe, but Richard thinks that's OK, maybe even a good thing. Frank is back in Richard's new collection of short stories, and this interview feels as timely as it did when it was first broadcast, eight years ago to this day. 

Richard Ford Radio Interview: The Novelist & His Character

One of America's best-known philosophers says his field has been on the wrong track for almost 400 years. According to John Searle, we do have direct access to reality, and not just to mental images and shadows on the cave wall. John is renowned for his no-nonsense handling of sometimes-abstruse philosophical problems, and he was both lucid and entertaining in this discussion of his new book "Seeing Things as They Are," the nature of perception, mind vs matter, subjectivity vs objectivity and his dog Tarski.

Philosopher John Searle Interview: Mind, Matter, Consciousness, Perception

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Philosopher John Searle Interview: Mind, Matter, Consciousness, Perception

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