Für das Times Literary Supplement hat David Papineau einen lesenswerten und gut lesbaren Artikel, “Power and consciousness on the Clapham omnibus“, über die Entwicklung der Philosophie John Searles vom ersten Aufsatz in Mind 1958 bis zu seinem jüngsten Buch “Freedom and Neurobiology” geschrieben.
“During the course of his intellectual lifetime, philosophy has become a dry and technical business. Most philosophers today write only for other philosophers about issues that can accurately be termed scholastic. Against this background, Searle is a beacon of accessible expertise, a throwback to a time when philosophy was part of public debate. His work is devoted to some of the most fundamental questions in philosophy, yet he never gets bogged down in the kind of esoteric disputation that forgets why the issues matter in the first place.“
