Deconstructing the Mind

ISBN: 9780195126662 出版年：2003 页码：233 Stich, Stephen P Oxford University Press

Debates over the viability of folk psychology have been a major theme in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. Eliminativists argue that advances in science will ultimately justify the conclusion that commonsense mental states do not exist. Stich 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, these ontological disputes will be settled by a pragmatic process in which social and political considerations have a major role to play.