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- From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
- Subject: Re: Physiology & Psychology (Q)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.011641.26748@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov19.143225.21172@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:16:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.143225.21172@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> trocklin@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Tom Rocklin) writes:
- >There is an argument that says, roughly, that knowing the details of the
- >neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of an organism (I'm particularly interested
- >in humans) will still leave you ignorant of important details
- >of the psychology of that organism.
- >
- This argument is usually found under the guise of "token identity functionalism"
- and the locus classicus is "Special Sciences" by Jerry Fodor, reprinted in
- _Representations_. A reasonable good account of it can be found in Owen
- Flanagan's _Science of Mind_ as well.
- It is the "received" view in cognitive science these days, though
- you don't have to look very far to find dissenters.
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- Christopher D. Green christo@psych.toronto.edu
- Psychology Department cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
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