[lit-ideas] Re: the first lines are the argument referred by
- From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 11:40:18 -0500
Donal McEvoy wrote:
"Wondering which Hilary Putnam (and on which planet) Eric means?"
Perhaps this one?
'I shall, in short, argue that pain is not a brain state, in the sense of a
physical-chemical state of the brain (or even the whole nervous system),
but another kind of state entirely. I propose the hypothesis that pain, or
the state of being in pain, is a functional state of a whole organism.'
(Putnam, 'The Nature of Mental States')
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
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