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Re: It always amuses me that...

Posted by alexandra_k on January 29, 2005, at 21:12:34

In reply to What is a voice?, posted by alexandra_k on January 29, 2005, at 21:04:09

The best science uses philosophical theory that is long outdated. Their data is grand, but their theories of the data, the interpreted significance of the data is questionable in many respects.

And that the best philosophical theory uses scientific data that is long outdated. Which leads us to go 'oh, bah! thats an empirical matter!'.

Can't keep up with everything at once I suppose...

Of course, there is something to be said for attempting to keep up with both. But there is more than enough to keep you occupied several lifetimes over just with one...

Identity theory is the favoured theory of neuroscientists. But it is discredited in philosophical circles. It is becoming fashionable to the general population as well. About half of students enrolled in an introductory course to philosophy of mind at second year level are dualists and about half are identity theorists.

By the end of the course everyone is a functionalist...

But that is not the end of the mystery...
There are so very many different varieties of functionalism...
It is just that once one has accepted that framework, well, it is then that things start to get really interesting.

 

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