Embodiment of Meaning

This book presents an elaborated argument for why functionalism, as well as other dematerialized and disembodied theories of mind, can’t be right.

In discussing the question of whether or not we are just material beings, Hilary Putnam once claimed that “we could be made of Swiss cheese and it wouldn''t matter.” Fifty years later, functionalism still reigns, and the psychological irrelevance of the...