This philosopher argued that the logical aspects of the mind-body problem would arise for any "computing system" that uses language and does not know about its own makeup in a paper titled "Robots."
This philosopher argued that the logical aspects of the mind-body problem would arise for any "computing system" that uses language and does not know about its own makeup in a paper titled "Robots." This thinker claimed that Euclid's 5th postulate is analytic in the paper "The Analytic and the Synthetic," which both defended the analytic/synthetic distinction and condemned it as relatively useless for the purposes of sciences. This philosopher attacked J.J.C. Smart's type-identity physicalism in his paper "Psychological Predicates," and argued for realism about mathematical entities in a thesis he co-formulated with Quine about their "indispensability." This thinker's primary contribution to the causal theory of reference was his concept of a division of linguistic labor, in which "experts" fix the extension of terms, leading him to conclude that "meanings just ain't in the head." For 10 points, name this philosopher who formulated the theory of multiple realizability of mental states and argued for semantic externalism in the paper "The Meaning of 'Meaning,'" using the "Twin Earth" thought experiment
This philosopher argued that the logical aspects of the mind-body problem would arise for any "computing system" that uses language and does not know about its own makeup in a paper titled "Robots."
Hilary Putnam