Greg Detre
@5 on Thursday, 25 May, 2000
Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture
Gareth Evans � �disinterested ferocity� � cared more deeply than anyone else about philosophy
subjective/objective distinction
Wittgenstein: complained of the �loss of problems� in (his friend) Russell�s work
functional role of the perception of the colour red in causing behaviour
conceptual truth = discoverable by what we would say on finding things to be different
a posteriori necessary = given what we know, it must be so
the fact that it seems that I can imagine physiological brain processes without the taste of chocolate
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apparently contingent mind/body
= an act of sympathetic imagination
split-brain = evidence that parts of our bodies support unified consciousness
psychophysical unity in sub-parts?
mental/physical as analogous with fountains/H20
functional vs structural
not all water is in fountains
physiognomical
analytic vs a priori vs conceptual
functionalism = structural conditions re its interaction with the environment