Rad Geek status update (13 Mar 2016, 7:59pm)
Here's an old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 8 years ago, in 2016, on the World Wide Web.
Damn. Hillary Putnam (1926-2016), R.I.P.
Mentality is a real and autonomous feature of our world. But even more important, at least in my feeling, is the fact that this whole question has nothing to do with our substance. Strange as it may seem to common sense and to sophisticated intuition alike, the question of the autonomy of our mental life does not hinge on and has nothing to do with that all too popular, all too old question about matter or soul-stuff. We could be made of Swiss cheese and it wouldn’t matter. –Hillary Putnam, “Philosophy and Our Mental Life” (1975)
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One of the greatest and most influential philosophers of the past half-century – and one of my favourite professors from my undergraduate days …
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