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Your 10-digit subscription number is above your name on the address slip and begins with 400. If you subscribed via the website, you can enter the order number from your subscription confirmation email in place of your subscription number. More search Options Browse by Subject Hilary Putnam’s latest book collects two series of his lectures with two chapters of ‘afterwords’. Subsidiary topics go by faster than my eye was able to follow, but the main concerns are: ‘representational’ theories of perception, and ‘identity’ theories of the mind/body relation. The treatment of the mind/body issues, though the dialectic is often intricate, is quite summary: neither philosophical claims for mind/body identity, nor the denials of such claims, are ‘intelligible’. That’s because ‘the notion of identity has not been given any sense in this context’ (sic). I’m not going to discuss this part of Putnam’s book because, truly, I haven’t a clue what it is to give a sense to a notion; the no

Vol. 22 No. 14 · 20 July 2000 A Science of Tuesdays Jerry Fodor Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 2923 words The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World by Hilary Putnam . Columbia, 221 pp., £17.50, January 2000, 0 231 10286 0 Show More Show More Hilary Putnam's latest book collects two series of his lectures with two chapters of 'afterwords'. Subsidiary topics go by faster than my eye was able to follow, but the main concerns are: 'representational' theories of perception, and 'identity' theories of the mind/body relation. The treatment of the mind/body issues, though th

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