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The “trivial neuron doctrine” is not trivial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Dale Jamieson
Dale Jamieson
Affiliation:
Environmental and Technology Studies Program and Department of Philosophy, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057 [email protected] www.dir.ucar.edu/esig/HP_dale.html
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Abstract

I argue that the trivial neuron doctrine as characterized by Gold & Stoljar is not trivial; it appears to be inconsistent with property dualism as well as some forms of functionalism and externalism. I suggest that the problem is not so much with the particular way in which Gold & Stoljar draw the distinction as with the unruliness of the distinction itself. Their failure to see this may be why they misunderstand the views of the Churchlands.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 841 - 842
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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