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. Putnam argues that in fact the computational analogy cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and knowledge that lie at the heart of the philosophy of mind.
- ISBN10 0262660741
- ISBN13 9780262660747
- Publish Date 28 August 1991 (first published 1 August 1988)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 7 December 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher MIT Press Ltd
- Imprint MIT Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 154
- Language English
- URL http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262660747