For those W4 readers interested in contemporary academic philosophy of mind (all three of you), here is my Thomistic take on Jerry Fodor's take on a recent development in that field.
Fodor and Aquinas on the Extended Mind Thesis
by Edward Feser
Comments (4)
Welcome to the future of minds Dr. Feser -
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Posted by Step2 | April 1, 2009 5:49 PM
For heaven's sake, nobody has called me out on the April Fool's prank. What does it take to get you folks to loosen up?
Posted by Step2 | April 1, 2009 8:59 PM
I've always thought Rene Descartes was a dead ringer for Sean Connery.
Posted by thebyronicman | April 1, 2009 9:45 PM
I liked Fodor's comparison of EMT,Chalmers/Clark variety, to his vacuum cleaner. If a notebook or cell phone why not?
But is not the more grounded EMT nothing more than a realistic metaphysics, of the kind a Searle, Nicholas Rescher, or going back a bit Thomas Reid, would espouse? Fodor in Hume Variations, which I've just begun, takes what appears to be a hard core realist/externalist position.
In any case, what ever the name, a welcome antidote to the various branches of scepticism and subjectivism regnant for so long.
Posted by johnt | April 2, 2009 11:18 AM