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'Parmenides', 'Persistence, Change and Explanation' and 'Psychosemantics'
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
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Behaviourism has no theory of mental causation [Fodor]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism
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Any piece of software can always be hard-wired [Fodor]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism
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Causal powers must be a crucial feature of mental states [Fodor]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 6. Homuncular Functionalism
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Mind is a set of hierarchical 'homunculi', which are made up in turn from subcomponents [Fodor, by Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 5. Supervenience of mind
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Supervenience gives good support for mental causation [Fodor]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 4. Connectionism
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Hume's associationism offers no explanation at all of rational thought [Fodor]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique
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If mind is just physical, how can it follow the rules required for intelligent thought? [Fodor]
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