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Gödel, Putnam, and functionalism a new reading of Representation and reality
Record details
- ISBN: 0262026236 (cloth)
- ISBN: 9780262026239 (cloth)
- ISBN: 1435603141 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781435603141 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0262269511 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780262269513 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 344 p.)
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electronic resource - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. "A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-336) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Putnam's use of Goedel's incompleteness theorems to refute computational functionalism -- 2. Putnam's bombshell : the Goedelian argument in "reflexive reflections" -- 3. Universal realization of computation : Putnam's triviality argument -- 4. Putnam's triviality theorem and universal physical computation -- 5. Searle on triviality and the subjective nature of computation -- 6. There are infinitely many computational realizations of an arbitrary intentional state -- 7. Against local computational reduction : the Equivalence argument -- 8. Rational interpretation, synonymy determination, and Equivalence -- 9. The question of the nonformalizability of SD, coreferentiality decisions, and the family of notions : rational interpretation, general intelligence, and reasonable reasoning. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Gödel, Kurt Putnam, Hilary Gödel, Kurt Putnam, Hilary Realism Functionalism (Psychology) PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body Mind-brain identity theory Computers |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
