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Armstrong's Materialist Theory of Mind December 23, 2021 John Heil
This chapter distinguishes two species of functionalism: what Ned Block called, ‘functional specifier functionalism’ (now often called ‘realizer functionalism’) and ‘functional identity functionalism’ (now often called ‘role functionalism’). The first species of functionalism was defended by Armstrong and by David Lewis, and remains the dominant strain in Australian philosophy of mind. The...
Routledge eBooks July 20, 2018 John Heil 21 citations
Consciousness is a familiar and beloved feature of our lives. One way to locate the mystery of consciousness is to recognize it as one aspect of a more general problem, the problem of reconciling our everyday experience of the universe with the &s;scientific image&s;, the picture of the universe we obtain from the sciences, especially fundamental physics. Consciousness and the manifest image...