Write a Philosophy Argumentative Essay. If you choose (a), be sure to present and respond to the strongest objection you can find to a premise or the structure of Searles argument. If you choose (b), be sure to consider the strongest objection to your objection. For this prompt make sure to have read Searles Minds, Brains, and Programs (includ- ing much of the Open Peer Commentary included with the version hosted at Canvas) and his Is the Brains Mind a Computer Program. Also read the Churchlands Could a Machine Think and Newells and Simons Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry. Prompt 2. Paul Churchland argues that the kinds of mental states described by folk psy- chology (beliefs, desires, etc.) are a serious candidate for outright elimination. Ex- plain what Churchland means by this and present his strongest argument for this con- clusion. Then either (a) defend this argument from its strongest objection or (b) present the strongest objection to it and defend your objection to its own strongest objection Make sure to have read Churchlands Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes as well as enough of his On the Nature of Theories to understand something of how connectionist networks might throw doubt on the existence of proposition/sentence- like mental representations. Also make sure to read Dennetts The Intentional Stance and Fodor and Pylyshyns Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture. Attached are the related slides from class, related texts, and the format requested by professor.Show more
