With happiness and reoret, we print the following exchange between John Searle and Hilary Putnam. Happiness, because our pages are paced by a brief yet intense discussion between two of the major thinkers in contemporary philosophy. Regret, because this debate was engendered, in part, by the tricky business of transcription.
For the record, in Hilary Putnam's lecture in Volume VIII of The Harvard Review of Philosophy, "the smell of the rose is a rate of neural firings" is not a quotation from John Searle's work.
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With happiness and reoret, we print the following exchange between John Searle and Hilary Putnam. Happiness, because our pages are paced by a brief yet intense discussion between two of the major thinkers in contemporary philosophy. Regret, because this debate was engendered, in part, by the tricky business of transcription.
For the record, in Hilary Putnam's lecture in Volume VIII of The Harvard Review of Philosophy, "the smell of the rose is a rate of neural firings" is not a quotation from John Searle's work.