THE PHILOSOPHY CLASS

A last look at the mind as a computer. In the previous lecture we discussed the Computational Theory of Mind , the theory also known as comp...

Like science is eager to discover the secret of life, so are the supporters of the Computational Theory of Mind eager to find artificial in...

Previous lecture I introduced you to the syntactic and semantic properties of symbols. Reason was, computers work with symbols, basic symbo...

Sometimes it is possible to show that one theory (the reduced theory) can be derived from another (the reducing theory). In that case an int...

Theories of the mind PRIOR to functionalism have been concerned both with (1) what there is, and (2) what gives each type of mental state ...

As promised and on Samuel's request we'll address the problem of "Other Minds" today. As such it is already a serious phil...