Representation and Reality

(Part of the Representation and Mind Series Series)

By Hilary Putnam

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Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book. Putnam argues that in fact the computational analogy cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and knowledge that lie at the heart of the philosophy of mind. Hilary Putnam is Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic at Harvard University.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262161087

ISBN13:9780262161084

Release Date:January 1988

Publisher:MIT Press (MA)

Length:136 Pages

Weight:1.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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