Re: The Identity Theory of Mind

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:31:24 GMT

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:38:16 +1000, "John Hasenkam" <johnh@faraway.>
in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>
>"Lester Zick" <lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:415586b1.16678949@netnews.att.net...
>> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:09:39 -0500, Paul Bramscher
>> <brams006_nospam@tc.umn.edu> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

[. . .]

>> >Philosophers could place themselves ahead of, rather than behind or
>> >outside of scientific advancement.
>>
>> Philosophers are turkeys who couldn't make the cut in science. Witness
>> the penny ante behaviorists who spout philosophy because they're tired
>> of not getting any respect for training animals and anthropomorphizing
>> results.
>>
>> Your idea of philosophers as scientific visionaries is a pipe dream.
>> At best they're nothing more than historians of bad ideas. At worst
>> they're deliberate academic malefactors. Witness, once again, the
>> philosophy and behavior of behaviorists.
>>
>> Regards - Lester
>
>Do you engage in science or philosophy?

Both. Primarily science on these groups but occasionally philosophy
with speculative issues as an approach to science. I naturally
excluded myself because it would have been a self serving declaration.

Regards - Lester

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