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abstract: "Gold & Stoljar's characterization of the trivial doctrine and of its relationships with the radical one misses some differences that may be crucial. The radical doctrine can be read as a derivative of the computational version of functionalism that provides the backbone of current cognitive science and is fundamentally uninterested in biology: both doctrines are fundamentally wrong. The synthesis between neurobiology and psychology requires instead that minds be viewed as ontologically primitive, that is, as material properties of functioning bodies. G&S's characterization of the trivial doctrine should therefore be correspondingly modified.\n"
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  Gold, I., Stoljar, D. (1999) A neuron doctrine in the philosophy of neuroscience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22: 809-869.
  Higginbotham, J. (1990) Philosophical issues in the study of language. In: Language: an invitation to cognitive science, eds. D.N. Osherson & H. Laznik. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:51:47
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  - cog-psy
  - phil-mind
  - BBS
  - bio-theory
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title: "Taking the trivial doctrine seriously: Functionalism, eliminativism, and materialism\n"
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