Speranza
Circa 1949, when Ryle was publishing his "Concept of Mind" and Turing was into 'computing', Grice circulated an unpublication on 'intention' qua dispositional concept.
He is into a conceptual analysis of psychological attitudes in general.
This I would constitute as his first phase in philosophical psychology.
The second phase is his Presidential Address to the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), and which we would call Turingian. I like that adjective.
There are of course connections between both.
A dispositional analysis of a psychological attitude links it with the perceptual input and the behavioural output. So does the Turingian analysis.
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This sounds just behavioural (which encompasses both the ins and the outs). What, if anything, distinguishes a dispositional analysis from a behavioural one?
ReplyDeleteThey locus classicus here seems to be Block, "Problems with Functionalism".
ReplyDeleteAt one fell swoop, as it were, Block manages to quote Turing (b. 1912) and Grice (b. 1913) in a single sentence.
I think Block's criticism relies on the fact that for Block, both Turing and Grice are thinking of discrete-state machines, while Block's "Blockhead" is more of a continuous-state machine.