ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM
SPECIFICATION
Eliminative materialism:
= Some or all common-sense (“folk-psychological”) mental
states/properties do not exist and our common-sense understanding is
radically mistaken (as defended by Patricia Churchland and Paul
Churchland).
ISSUES:
our certainty about the existence of our mental states takes priority
over other considerations
folk-psychology has good predictive and explanatory power (and so
is the best hypothesis)
the articulation of eliminative materialism as a theory is self-
refuting.
ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM:
SPECIFICATION
Eliminative materialism:
= Some or all common-sense (“folk-psychological”) mental
states/properties do not exist and our common-sense understanding is
radically mistaken (as defended by Patricia Churchland and Paul
Churchland).
ISSUES:
our certainty about the existence of our mental states takes priority
over other considerations
folk-psychology has good predictive and explanatory power (and so
is the best hypothesis)
the articulation of eliminative materialism as a theory is self-
refuting.
ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM:
