This page is meant to summarize the notions, theories, and arguments discussed in the last weeks of class.
- Borrowed vs underived/“original” intentionality
- Block’s Homunculi-head and China-brain examples
- Searle’s Chinese Room
- Systems Reply to Searle; Searle’s Objection to it
- Simulations vs Emulations
- Physical colors of surfaces and lights vs Colors our experiences present them as having
- Afterimages
- Inverted spectra/qualia
- What are the philosophical results that the possibility of inverted spectra might establish?
- Absent qualia/blindsight/philosophical “zombies”
- Jackson’s Fred and Black-and-white Mary
- The “Old fact known in a new way” response to Jackson
- The “New ability, not new knowledge of facts” response to Jackson
- narrow duplicates
- physical environments vs speech communities
- methodological solipsism
- “If two subjects are narrow duplicates, their words/thoughts must have the same extension.”
- Twin Earth
- natural kinds
- deference to a larger speech community
- Water is necessarily H2O, but one doesn’t need to know that to have our concept “water”
- Putnam’s opponents: no essential properties except what’s derivable a priori from the concept