Against Slagle's Reading of Eliminative Materialism on Self-Defeating

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2022-04-01

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Tümkaya, Serdal

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Jim Slagle claims that eliminative materialism (EM) denies some of the mind's self-evident properties, such as intentionality, qualia and the view that beliefs are real or veridical. I, herein, will argue that what EM denies is actually the folk psychological notion of belief, not belief as such. The Churchlands construe propositional belief as merely one kind of representation in the larger representational scheme. The point here is not to deny belief, but to construe it as one of the, and possibly a very recent, sorts of representations that the brain uses, not the general or fundamental form thereof.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/97114

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PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS

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https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12351

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S. Tümkaya, “Against Slagle’s Reading of Eliminative Materialism on Self-Defeating,” PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, pp. 0–0, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/97114.