โ Scribed by J. Christopher Maloney
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
It all started when Bert, physicalist that he is, began to wonder how it was that psychological states --beliefs and desires paradigmatically -could be intentional states whose contents figure so centrally in causal explanations of intelligent behavior. Bert takes it for granted that Ernie, for example, generally acts as he does because he believes and desires as he does. It has long been Bert's practice, when attempting to say just which of Ernie's psychological states cause Ernie's behavior, to identify Ernie's efficacious psychological states by specifying their contents. Psychological states, Bert supposes, are relations to mental representations. These representations have content, which they bestow on those psychological states in which they occur as relata. So, since the behavior that results from psychological states typically accords with the contents of those states, Bert reasons that mental representations must carry the causal charge of psychological states and, therefore be physical structures.
Evidently, then, the physical form and content of a representation would need to covary. Nonetheless, Bert recognizes that psychological types are multiply realizable and, thus, not covariant with, say, neurophysical types. The correspondence between the physical and the
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