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  Mind and Brain PortalWelcome to the Mind and Brain Portal. This is an interdisciplinary point of entry to such related fields as the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, linguistics, and psychology. |
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 Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31, 1926) has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.[1] He is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny to his own philosophical positions and those of others, subjecting each position to rigorous analysis until he exposes its flaws.[2] As a result, he has acquired a reputation for frequently changing his own position.[3] In philosophy of mind, Putnam is known for his hypothesis of multiple realizability, and for the concept of functionalism, an influential theory regarding the mind-body problem.[1][4] In philosophy of language, along with Saul Kripke and others, he developed the causal theory of reference, and formulated an original theory of meaning, inventing the notion of semantic externalism based on a famous thought experiment called Twin Earth.[5] |
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Computation, Daniel Dennett, Jaegwon Kim, Neuroscience, Brain, Human brain, Premotor cortex, neutral monism, theory of mind |
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Terence Horgan, Intentional System, Logical Theorist, simulation theory of mind, Wolf Singer, Michael Tye |
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Zenon Pylyshyn, Philip Johnson-Laird, Rodney A. Brooks, Representational theory of mind, Orbitofrontal cortex, Joseph E. LeDoux, cellular memory, Embodied Embedded Cognition |
