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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"eliminative materialism"”.
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Approaches to action
… between the identity theory, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. The identity theory, as described by Donald Davidson and Colin McGinn, states that materially instansiable beliefs and desires are the causes of action. However, problems arise from a lack of a priori validity, difficulties …
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Making Sense of Pain: A Pluralist Remedy for Pain Eliminativism
In this dissertation, I argue that pain is a sense. This argument is made against pain eliminativism, a position which argues that pain is no longer a meaningful scientific concept and that it should be removed from scientific and philosophical investigations. I make this sensorial argument by …
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Three analytic philosophy of mind debates and a Deleuzian intervention: Folk Psychology, Personal Identity and Free Will
… The intractable problem in this debate is Eliminative materialism (EM) versus Folk Psychology (FP). Daniel Dennett and Andy Clark make considerable progress in working through this problem, they create a point of contact with Deleuze and establish the ground for the way ahead. This …