On Putnam
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Hilary Putnam has made major contributions to philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. In philosophy of mind, he developed the theories of multiple instantiability and functionalism. In philosophy of language, a major contribution of his is semantic externalism. This paper will give a very brief overview of multiple instantiability and functionalism, and then describe semantic externalism, the associated causal chains of reference, and the twin earth and brain in a vat thought experiments.
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