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Gödel, Putnam, and Functionalism : A New Reading of 'Representation and Reality'.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A Bradford Book SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (357 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262269513
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gödel, Putnam, and FunctionalismDDC classification:
  • 152.4
LOC classification:
  • B835.B865 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Putnam's Use of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems to Refute Computational Functionalism -- 2 Putnam's Bombshell: The Gödelian 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 Interpretation1, General Intelligence, and Reasonable Reasoning -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: The first systematic examination of Hilary Putnam's arguments against computational functionalism challenges each of Putnam's main arguments.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Putnam's Use of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems to Refute Computational Functionalism -- 2 Putnam's Bombshell: The Gödelian 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 Interpretation1, General Intelligence, and Reasonable Reasoning -- Notes -- Index.

The first systematic examination of Hilary Putnam's arguments against computational functionalism challenges each of Putnam's main arguments.

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