John Searle, a contemporary philosopher of mind, in his book, "The Rediscovery of the Mind", talks about his theory of the
mind, which he calls "
biological naturalism". This paper expresses Searle's theory of the mind and concentrates on his critique of
materialism. Although he believe that materialism is wrong in its current version, he thinks that materialism and science represent the path that will lead us to the solution of the mind/body problem. This paper shows how Searle thinks that, in the future, science will be able to tell us the relationship between mind and the body. Thus, with his biological naturalism, instead of disregarding the mental, he believes that the mental exists and emerges from the physical. It discusses how materialism is the path to take in order to investigate this emergent relationship between the physical and the mental.