Book Review: Jeff Buechner, Gödel, Putnam, and Functionalism: A New Reading of Representation and Reality. Hensel, W., M. & Miłkowski, M. Journal of Cognitive Science, 15(3):391-402, 2014.
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The paper is a critical review of the book Gödel, Putnam, and Functionalism: A New Reading of Representation and Reality by Jeff Buechner, which is a defense of computational functionalism against arguments formulated by Putnam, Searle, Fodor, Lucas and others. Buechner, after having meticulously analyzed these arguments, concludes that all of them fail to show that computational functionalism is not a viable strategy to model the mind in cognitive science. As such, it is a defense of a mathematically-informed version of computational functionalism. We discuss Beuchner’s strategy in quite a bit of detail and make some comments.
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