Dennett’s Unrealistic Psychology
1994; University of Arkansas Press; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5840/philtopics1994221/29
ISSN2154-154X
Autores Tópico(s)Philosophy and Theoretical Science
ResumoThroughout his career, Dan Dennett has sought to wed the tradition of conceptual analysis to the recently emerging cognitive and neurosciences. The articles collected in Brainstorms 2 I think particularly of the rich piece Why a Computer Can't Feel Pain but also of the more intimate How to Change Your Mind and the witty Where Am I? have been wonderful episodes in the romance and, to my mind, bode well for the marriage. I worry, though, that Dennett doesn't take the relationship sufficiently seriously. It seems to me bound to end up on the rocks so long as neither party is committed to the reality of their common interest the mind. This lack of commitment Dennett explicitly advocates throughout his writings. Early on, for example, in Intentional Systems, he wrote:
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