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Eliminating Eliminative Materialism
Eliminative materialism is a bold position in philosophy of mind: proponents of it hold that folk psychology is a primitive theory of human behavior, and like most primitive theories, it is, unfortunately, false. The alarming implications of this are that mental states don’t actually exist—humans don’t actually believe anything. In this paper I try to show that several central claims of elimina...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Behavior Analyst
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0738-6729,2196-8918
DOI: 10.1007/bf03392261