Markus Gabriel's I am Not a Brain is far better than his earlier works. But is this what philosophy of mind has devolved to?
No, do you recommend him, even for a possible target of a critique?
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I mean I would be thrilled if you critiqued him, and it would be interesting to draw out what’s gone wrong (in short: he uses common-sense functionalism to justify not even attempting to think through a formal theory of mind) but there’s ample targets for critique out there so no
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Like I read I&S before the semester started, and then he spent the entire sem talking about the HISTORY of philosophy of mind (despite it being a phil of mind course) and he only gave us a formal theory of mind in the last 30 minutes of the last course, offhandedly. Infuriating
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