PHILOS 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Afterimage, Epiphenomenalism, Mark Twain
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Putnam attacks what mental states are and also the verifiability theory of meaning, necessary vs. Contingent: putnam thinks the behaviorist is confused about science and causation and something else i missed, not necessary that the causes and effects of pain go together. How are causes not logical constructions out of their effects, though? c. i. 1. As with polio we find it plausible to argue that there are possible situations where we get the association of cause and effect. c. i. 2. There can be contingent statements of the form a is identical to b. You can think of mark twain and sam clemens are associated with two different appearances. Cf. sense/reference distinction: objection 6: sensations are private but brain processes are public, reply: language of introspective reports has a different logic from the language of physical processes. Given our limited knowledge you are the expert of you - but once we have better knowledge we will have equally good 3rd person access. a. i.
