This assumption is the assumption that no psychological state, properly so called, presupposes the existence of any individual other than the subject to whom that state is ascribed. Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind - Page 238by Gilbert Harman - 1999 - 302 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Hilary Putnam - Philosophy - 1979 - 482 pages
...psychology). But this is not the sense of psychological state that is at issue in the above assumption (i). When traditional philosophers talked about psychological...other than the subject to whom that state is ascribed. (In fact, the assumption was that no psychological state presupposes the existence of the subject's... | |
| Keith Gunderson - Science - 1975 - 434 pages
...psychology). But this is not the sense of psychological state that is at issue in the above assumption (I). When traditional philosophers talked about psychological...other than the subject to whom that state is ascribed. (In fact, the assumption was that no psychological state presupposes the existence of the subject's... | |
| Butterfield - Philosophy - 1986 - 264 pages
...defend that truth. The term ' methodological solipsism ' was introduced by Putnam ( 1 975 : 220) for the assumption that ' no psychological state, properly...than the subject to whom that state is ascribed'. As Putnam goes on to say, to make this assumption is to adopt a restrictive programme - a programme... | |
| George Boolos - Philosophy - 1990 - 408 pages
...states according with the assumption of "methodological solipsism." Such a state does not presuppose "the existence of any individual other than the subject to whom that state is ascribed" (p. 220). The idea is that narrow psychological states are entirely supervenient on the intrinsic inner... | |
| David Bell, David Scott Bell - Husserl - 1990 - 296 pages
...has been identified by Putnam with the assumption that 'no psychological state, properly so-called, presupposes the existence of any individual other than the subject to whom that state is ascribed'.6 Putnam adds: 'Making this assumption is, of course, adopting a restrictive program —... | |
| J.C. Smith - Computers - 1990 - 342 pages
...Putnam, methodological solipsism is "the assumption that no psychological state, properly so-called, presupposes the existence of any individual other than the subject to whom that state is ascribed."4 Fodor characterizes it, somewhat more broadly, as the "Cartesian" view that "there is an... | |
| Martin Rechenauer - Individualism - 1994 - 136 pages
...von Hilary Putnam. Da findet man eine erste Charakterisierung des Methodologischen Solipsismus (MS): „When traditional philosophers talked about psychological...than the subject to whom that state is ascribed." (Putnam 1975, 220) Ein psychischer Zustand ist unter der Auflage des MS also dadurch gekennzeichnet,... | |
| Heinz-Dieter Heckmann - Philosophy - 1994 - 332 pages
...kritischer Absicht so betitelte) Annahme des methodologischen Solipsismus subsumieren,59 welche besagt "that no psychological state, properly so called,...other than the subject to whom that state is ascribed. " (Putnam 75c, S. 220.) Reichen nun die obigen Überlegungen aus, um das Zuordnungsproblem zu entschärfen?... | |
| G. Preyer, F. Siebelt, A. Ulfig - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 480 pages
...made when talking about psychological or mental states. Putnam defines methodological solipsism as "the assumption that no psychological state, properly...existence of any individual other than the subject to whom the state is ascribed" (1975: 220). On the basis of this definition Putnam distinguishes between two... | |
| Robert Andrew Wilson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1997 - 292 pages
...that psychology ought to concern itself only with narrow psychological states, which do not presuppose 'the existence of any individual other than the subject to whom that state is ascribed' (Fodor 1980a:244).' The sense in which psychological states don't presuppose the existence of other... | |
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