Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, H.H. Price and Hilary Putnam
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15 ideas
17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour
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Dispositions need mental terms to define them [Putnam]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
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Superactors and superspartans count against behaviourism [Putnam, by Searle]
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Total paralysis would mean that there were mental states but no behaviour at all [Putnam]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism
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Is pain a functional state of a complete organism? [Putnam]
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Functionalism is compatible with dualism, as pure mind could perform the functions [Putnam]
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Functional states correlate with AND explain pain behaviour [Putnam]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism
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Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]
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Functionalism says robots and people are the same at one level of abstraction [Putnam]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 8. Functionalism critique
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If concepts have external meaning, computational states won't explain psychology [Putnam]
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Functionalism can't explain reference and truth, which are needed for logic [Putnam]
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Is there just one computational state for each specific belief? [Putnam]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 3. Property Dualism
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Temperature is mean molecular kinetic energy, but they are two different concepts [Putnam]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
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If we are going to eliminate folk psychology, we must also eliminate folk logic [Putnam]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
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Neuroscience does not support multiple realisability, and tends to support identity [Polger on Putnam]
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If humans and molluscs both feel pain, it can't be a single biological state [Putnam, by Kim]
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