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Deconstructing the Mind (Hardcover)
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Deconstructing the Mind (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy of Mind
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Over the last two decades, debates over the viability of
commonsense psychology have been centre stage in both cognitive
science and the philosophy of mind. Eliminativists have argued that
advances in cognitive science and neuroscience will ultimately
justify a rejection of our "folk" theory of the mind, and of its
ontology. In the first half of this book Stich, who was at one time
a leading advocate of eliminativism, maintains that even if the
sciences develop in the ways that eliminativists foresee, none of
the arguments for ontological elimination are tenable. Rather than
being resolved by science, he contends, these ontological disputes
will be settled by a pragmatic process in which social and
political considerations have a major role to play. In later
chapters, Stich argues that the widespread worry about
"naturalizing" psychological properties is deeply confused, since
there is no plausible account of what naturalizing requires on
which the failure of the naturalization project would lead to
eliminativism. He also offers a detailed analysis of the many
different notions of folk psychology to be found in philosophy and
psychology, and argues that simulation theory, which purports to be
an alternative to folk psychology, is not supported by recent
experimental findings.
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