Gödel, Putnam, and functionalism [[electronic resource] ] : a new reading of 'representation and reality' / / Jeff Buechner

• Autore: Buechner Jeff
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 128/.2
• Soggetto topico: Realism; Functionalism (Psychology); Mind-brain identity theory; Computers
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: "A Bradford book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 EQUIVALENCE9 The Question of the Nonformalizability of SD, Coreferentiality Decisions, and the Family of Notions: Rational Interpretation1, General Intelligence, and Reasonable Reasoning; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The first systematic examination of Hilary Putnam's arguments against computational functionalism challenges each of Putnam's main arguments.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gödel, Putnam, and functionalism
• ISBN: 0-262-26197-9; 1-282-09904-3; 9786612099045; 0-262-26951-1; 1-4356-0314-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452097203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II