Philosophy and our Mental Life

By H. Putnam. 2002

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Everett and structure (2001, background): “r internal makeup is.) So an explanation in terms of the lower-level theory contains an enormous amount of extraneous noise which is irrelevant to a description in terms of higher-level patterns. See Putnam (1975) for further description of this point. This approach to higher-order ontology applies ”
The Limitations of Hierarchical Organization* (2012, background): “the 1970s and 1980s, when a strong drive for experimentation as the dominant modality had the unintended consequence of research focused only on small spatial and temporal scales, since those were amenable to experimental manipulation. Most experiments in ecology are conducted at the scale of a few ”
Neuroscience and the Multiple Realization of Cognitive Functions* (2010, background): “…have long been united by the belief that mental properties or states are multiply realizable.1 This consensus was established largely on the basis of the intuitions and analogies presented by Putnam (1967), Block and Fodor (1972), and Fodor *Received October 2009; revised December 2009.”
Mathematical Explanations Of Empirical Facts, And Mathematical Realism (2012, background): “Consider two alternative explanations for why a square peg didn't fit through a round hole in a board, where the hole has a diameter equal to the side length of the peg (this example is adapted from Putnam 1975 : 295]): 1.”
Integrating psychology and neuroscience: functional analyses as mechanism sketches (2011, background): “(Fodor 1975, 25; see also Fodor 1997, 161-2) We could be made of Swiss cheese and it wouldn't matter (Putnam 1975, 291).”
Explanation and Abductive Inference (2012, background): “While causal factors are involved, it is arguably geometric facts that do the explanatory work (Putnam, 1975).”
Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: A Varied Landscape (2011, background): “Probably the most influential advocates have been: Putnam (1975) for version (a), with the vivid example of a square peg fitting a square hole, but not a circular one; and Fodor (1974) for version (b), with the vivid example of P = being money.12 12The argument is also influential in discussions…”