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Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book.
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1 edition- Other · English · 1988MIT Press · 136 pages · 9780262161084
PhilosophyMind-brain identity theoryComputersReference (Philosophy)Functionalism (Psychology)TruthMathematicsRealism