[lit-ideas] Re: Confessions of an Analytic Functionalist
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:25:22 +0900
I have to agree with Andreas here. The citing of ancient authorities is no
contribution to knowledge unless the relevance is demonstrated. This sort of
cookie-cutter application of something read once-upon-a-time is not helpful.
John
On 10/16/07, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FUNCTIONALISM: The Western Tradition in Oxford
>
> McCreery re: idea -- expression of idea.
>
> >Pondering the conversation about what goes on before we speak, I note
> <that two possibilities are in play.
>
> In philosophical parlance, the possibilities seem to be:
>
> BEHAVIOURISM: There are no ideas -- only patterns of behaviour. So it's
> the expression of alleged psychological stuff that matters. 'Analytic
> behaviourism' made rough American behaviourism accepted in Oxford by Gilbert
> Ryle with his _The concept of mind_. (Not the Western tradition since the
> founder, Watson, was not a public-school boy).
>
> FUNCTIONALISM. Usually ascribed to Aristotle. Made reasonable to
> Anglo-American-Argentine ears by Grice in his "Method in philosophical
> psychology" (in his book, _The Conception of Value_, Oxford). A
> psychological _state_ is a function (in the Turing sense of the expression)
> of two variables: the perceptual input (sensory) and the behavioural output
> (the babble). The Western tradition _par excellence_ because it is fully
> developed by the greatest author within the Classical Tradition of the Best
> Brand of Philosophy, Aristotle.
>
> MENTALISM. Not known in Oxford -- Common in the Continent. There is
> _mental substance_ (res cogitans, in Descartes's lingo). This is structured
> as a language, and may eventually get expressed in 'verbal' or 'exterior
> language'. Not the Western tradition. Possibly Judaeo-Hebraic in nature, or
> from some (who knows) some Teutonic source of animism.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
>
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