It is not very often that you hear about somebody raising the cost of rent for everyone in an entire city by ~28% in a single year[0]. He will certainly be remembered.

0. https://www.academia.edu/30805094/The_Success_and_Failure_of...

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emil-lp 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Searle famously argued that the treatment of landlords in Berkeley was comparable to the treatment of black people in the south ...

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internet_points 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

oh wow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle#Political_activity

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jrflowers 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I personally struggle to imagine what it would be like to have an untouchable philosophy professor that does not see the difference between purchasing a seventeen unit apartment building in Berkeley, California and being born black in the south. Sadly I was not there in the twenty five to twenty nine years between him making that argument and his departure from the university to experience that

	▲	netdevphoenix 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Departure" is a very generous euphemism for "being kicked for taking advantage of his students". His contributions to the philosophy of mind are great and will be felt in Computer Science, especially with the current LLM tech but let's not skirt around the subject.