Psychological Predicates.

Putnam, H. (1967). Psychological Predicates. Art, Mind, and Religion.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1967

Link

https://philpapers.org/rec/PUTPP-2

Cited from

marine_science, philosophy

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Primes

• Outcome-Defined Adequacy
  • In philosophy of mind and biology, functionalism defines a mental state or biological kind by its causal role, not its material realization.
• Reductionism
  • One can ask whether a higher-level regularity is "nothing but" lower-level dynamics, and one can reason about the limits of reduction where the reductive promise fails, marshalling the canonical defeaters: multiple realizability (the same higher-level property realized by heterogeneous lower-level substrates), strong emergence, and computational irreducibility (where the only way to know the whole's behavior is to run it, so no shortcut derivation exists).

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