FROM FUNCTIONALISM TO CONTEXTUALISM: RECONSTRUCTING DIALOGUE BETWEEN DREYFUS AND PUTNAM

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MOHAMAD ALI KHALAJ MOHAMAD HOSEIN; TABATABAIE MOHAMMAD TAGHI

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Journal: FALSAFEH (THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY) Year:2014 | Volume:41 | Issue:2 Page(s): 103-120

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FROM FUNCTIONALISM TO CONTEXTUALISM: RECONSTRUCTING DIALOGUE BETWEEN DREYFUS AND PUTNAM

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MOHAMAD ALI KHALAJ MOHAMAD HOSEIN | TABATABAIE MOHAMMAD TAGHI | Issue Writer Certificate

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TURING MACHINEQ3

ATOMISMQ2

MINDQ2

FUNCTIONALISMQ2

CONTEXTUALISMQ2

Abstract

Putnam's 1960 article, "Minds and Machines", sketched a novel approach to the MIND based on the analogy between mental states and logical-computational state of TURING MACHINE, which later acknowledged as FUNCTIONALISM. Based on his interpretation of the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, Dreyfus criticized Putnam’s functionalist-computation a list approach to the MIND in an article directly addressing to him. In both physical and psychological-phenomenological level, Dreyfus proposes that MIND can’t be understood as TURING MACHINE which works with formal rules and in which inputs and outputs are context-free and independent of environment. About three decades after his article "minds and machines", according to Carnap’s failure to formulate induction and Quine’s holism and also based on his semantic externalism, Putnam rejected his functionalist-computation a list approach and accepted an externalist-contextualist approach. Although Putnam does not mention the name of Dreyfus, his criticism to reject FUNCTIONALISM was obviously resembling the one Dreyfus stated previously contrary to the FUNCTIONALISM. In this paper, in order to reconstruct the critical dialogue between Dreyfus and Putnam, first, FUNCTIONALISM is formulated in the works of Putnam. After that, the phenomenological critique of Dreyfus to Putnam is stated. Then, it is shown that the causes of Putnam’s turning from FUNCTIONALISM to contextual point of view were thoroughly similar to Dreyfus’s critics to him. Last, it is shown that based on this turning from FUNCTIONALISM to CONTEXTUALISM, physicalism as a theory of MIND is challenged and instead “subject in the world” provides a better model of the MIND.

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MOHAMAD ALI KHALAJ, MOHAMAD HOSEIN, & TABATABAIE, MOHAMMAD TAGHI. (2014). FROM FUNCTIONALISM TO CONTEXTUALISM: RECONSTRUCTING DIALOGUE BETWEEN DREYFUS AND PUTNAM. FALSAFEH (THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY), 41(2), 103-120. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/93716/en

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MOHAMAD ALI KHALAJ MOHAMAD HOSEIN, TABATABAIE MOHAMMAD TAGHI. FROM FUNCTIONALISM TO CONTEXTUALISM: RECONSTRUCTING DIALOGUE BETWEEN DREYFUS AND PUTNAM. FALSAFEH (THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY)[Internet]. 2014;41(2):103-120. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/93716/en

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MOHAMAD HOSEIN MOHAMAD ALI KHALAJ, and MOHAMMAD TAGHI TABATABAIE, “FROM FUNCTIONALISM TO CONTEXTUALISM: RECONSTRUCTING DIALOGUE BETWEEN DREYFUS AND PUTNAM,” FALSAFEH (THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY), vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 103–120, 2014, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/93716/en

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