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Professor John Searle explores the limitations of human behavioural science in his fifth Reith Lecture.

In his fifth Reith Lecture from his series 'Minds, Brains and Science', John Searle, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, considers the discipline of human behavioural science.

In this lecture entitled 'A Changing Reality', Professor Searle explores the limits to the insights that we can expect from a 'science' of human behaviour. He questions the success of the natural sciences. Why have they not given us more information about human behaviour? What makes the subject so different to sciences like physics and chemistry?

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Wed 5 Dec 1984 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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