Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Eliminative Materialism

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    • Published: 07-29-2015 06:28 am
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    • "Eliminative materialism (or eliminativism) is the radical claim that our ordinary, common-sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist. Descartes famously challenged much of what we take for granted, but he insisted that, for the most part, we can be confident about the content of our own minds. Eliminative materialists go further than Descartes on this point, since they challenge the existence of various mental states that Descartes took for granted."

      http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/


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