The article investigates the frequent assertion in the philosophical literature which affirms that Searle's conception of the reduction of consciousness is incoherent. After an exam on the basic theses of his theory of mind (section 2), his position concerning the identity between consciousness and brain activity is discussed (section 3). From Searle's adhesion to a token identity thesis, we can conclude that there is no contradiction between this thesis and the ontological irreducibility he defends. However, it is possible to deduce assertions from his theory that contradict this same theory (section 4) once this irreducibility results in a property dualism (section 5).
Consciousness; reduction; causal overdetermination; epiphenomenalism