Re: The Identity Theory of Mind
From: JPL Verhey (matterDELminds_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/26/04
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:58:30 +0200
"Lester Zick" <lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 01:51:41 +0200, "JPL Verhey"
...
>>> I routinely pose this question once a year so I might as well do it
>>> here. Can you name any philosopher apart from Aristotle and the
>>> syllogism who contributed anything to the history of ideas and
>>> science that was demonstrably true and definitively correct?
>>
>>My opinion doesn't really count, but "my impression" from the only
>>philosopher that I ever read an entire book from and didn't start to
>>yawn after 20 pages was Karl Popper's "the logoc of scientific
>>discovery".
>>
>>I think philosophy has little to offer perhaps at the moment, on the
>>other hand... philosophy of mind is an area that can use some novel
>>approaches, because most scientists think that consciousness still
>>needs
>>to be understood and explained in fundamentally new ways, and some
>>radical others claim that it doesn't deserve consideration because it
>>can't be observed 3rd personally anyways..or claim even that it
>>doesn't
>>exist.
>
> Well, JPL, your opinion counts as much as many others here. But your
> suggestion seems to relegate philosophy and philosophers to followers
> of science and historians of ideas rather than pioneers.
Well, I think philosphy of mind, when standing with one leg on the solid
sediments of contemporary science and the other searching for clues in
the suspensions aqa "possibilities" dispersed throughout the
metaphysical unknown, can be a real pioneering role.
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