rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport) (04/07/89)
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
and
GRADUATE RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN COGNITIVE AND LINGUISTIC SCIENCES
PRESENT
LYNNE RUDDER BAKER
Department of Philosophy
Middlebury College
HAS REPRESENTATION BEEN NATURALIZED?
Physicalism either denies or denigrates beliefs, by maintaining either
that there are no beliefs or that beliefs are identical with physical
states. Baker's book gives close examination of each of these proposals
in turn, concluding that they come up short. One of the most subtle and
influential proponents of physicalism is Jerry Fodor. At the American
Philosophical Association meetings in December 1988, Baker read a cri-
tique of Fodor's book _Psychosemantics_, with Fodor giving a reply. The
paper she will read here is a revision of her APA paper that takes
Fodor's reply into account.
Wednesday, April 19, 1989
3:00 P.M.
684 Baldy Hall, Amherst Campus
Contact Newton Garver, Dept. of Philosophy, 716-636-2444, or Bill Rapaport,
Dept. of Computer Science, 716-636-3193, for further information.