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- From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
- Subject: Re: Physiology & Psychology (Q)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.011856.26872@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov19.152455.8486@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> <dubin.722200286@spot.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:18:56 GMT
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- In article <dubin.722200286@spot.Colorado.EDU> dubin@spot.colorado.edu writes:
- >trocklin@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Tom Rocklin) writes:
- >
- >>There is an argument that says, roughly, that knowing the details of the
- >>neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of an organism (I'm particularly interested
- >>in humans) will still leave you ignorant of important details
- >>of the psychology of that organism.
- >
- >For a slightly indirect approach to this try, available in paperback:
- >
- >Minds, Brains and Science by John Searle.
- >
- Searle's book is an interesting read, but it should not be a considered to
- be a completely fair account. He is, after all, about the most rabid
- opponent of functionalism going these days.
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- Psychology Department cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
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