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This thinker discusses how advances in science troubled theories that a cat’s superior colliculus worked like a look-up table in The Computational Brain, co-written with Terrence J. Sejnowski. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this thinker who argued that advances in neuroscience would discredit the explanations of folk psychology in the 1986 book Neurophilosophy.
ANSWER: Patricia Churchland [accept Patricia Smith Churchland; prompt on Churchland or P. Churchland; prompt on Patricia Smith by asking “what name does she publish under?”]
[10e] Patricia Churchland and her husband Paul are both associated with eliminative materialism, which denies the existence of this concept separate from the brain. Cartesian dualism separates this concept from the body.
ANSWER: mind [or mental substance or res cogitans]
[10m] Churchland starts her foreword for a book by this thinker by asking “bodily states exist anyway; why add the others?” That book by this thinker imagines a translator trying to work out whether “gavagai” means rabbit.
ANSWER: W. V. O. Quine [or Willard Van Orman Quine] (The book is Word and Object.)
<EC, Philosophy> | Packet O - Editors 1

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