Mechanisms and purposive behavior III
Philosophy of Science 41 (4):345-360 (1974)
| Abstract | It is commonly thought that the dispositional view of purposiveness is itself incompatible with the programmatic claims of neurophysiologists. In this paper, various versions of four arguments for this incompatibility are examined, and rejected as unsound. Central to the argument is a rough sketch of a "mechanistic" position which seems clearly compatible with a dispositional view of purposiveness | |||||||||
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