States of mind: Countering eliminative materialism
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2018-09-05
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Black, John A.
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This book examines, from a Wittgensteinian perspective, a version of
eliminative materialism formerly propounded by Richard Rorty. The author
argues that this view about the nature and existence of minds and mental
states, which treats them as proto-scientific theoretical entities, is false, and
assumes too crude an understanding of our day-to-day use of mental
language. The author also develops positive conclusions in the philosophy
of mind from a criticism of these underlying assumptions, setting out an
alternative position derived from Wittgenstein's notion of criteria.