Abstract
John Searle offers what he thinks to be a reasonable scientific
approach to the understanding of consciousness. I argue that Searle is
demanding nothing less than a Kuhnian-type revolution with respect to
how scientists should study consciousness given his rejection of the
subject-object distinction and affirmation of mental causation. As part
of my analysis, I reveal that Searle embraces a version of emergentism
that is in tension, not only with his own account, but also with some of
the theoretical tenets of science. I conclude that Searle has offered little to motivate scientists to adopt his proposal.