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On Eliminative Materialism's Disintegrate Of Folk Psychology

Posted on:2003-05-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Y DaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360062486395Subject:Marxist philosophy
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Folk Psychology is the focus problem of current Philosophy of Mind and Recognize Science. The question about Folk Psychology was based on this commonly seen fact: Everyone of us ordinary people can describe himself and other's mental states by use mental concepts, and we also can explain and predict others action. This commonly mental resource was called Folk Psychology by philosophy of Mind.And does Folk Psychology really exist? Is there any serious conflict between Scientific Psychology concepts and Folk Psychology concepts? The Folk Psychology's fate is go on exist in the future Scientific Psychology or been reduced or been eliminated?All these questions can be sum up as one problem. This problem is the status and destiny of Folk Psychology. To counter this problem, Eliminative Materialism put forward its won special viewpoint about mind problem, what it action is a radical ontologyrevolution------it want negate and eliminate Folk Psychology and replace it by accurateand perfect neuroscience.This paper's content can be summarized as follows, it introduce the Eliminative Materialism's basic concept and Eliminative Materialism's deconstruction of Folk Psychology from three different aspects. The first deconstruction's reason is Folk Psychology's explain is ineffective, so Folk Psychology should be eliminated. The second deconstruction was based on the study of Reductionism theory, it viewpoint can be conclude like that, because Folk Psychology can't reduce to neuroscience, we can say it does not harmony with science. Folk Psychology should be eliminated. The third deconstruction was based on the argument of Functionalism, it argued that although Folk Psychology predict and explain people's action by people's causality states, it impossible to distinguish causality role. Because one proposition content state can be lead to different internal causality function states.To counter the Eliminative Materialism's attempt to deconstruct the Folk Psychology. Optimism and Functionalism express their suspect and query the validity of the Eliminative Materialism's statement. They think Folk Psychology can't be eliminated and Eliminative Materialism itself has been in the problem of self-contradictory. They also give their reason.In view of the debate between two sides still continue. The author give his own predict of Folk Psychology's status and destiny. The author thinks Folk Psychology has reasons to be exist, but Folk Psychology's premise is the wrong topography, wrong geomorphology, wrong ecology and wrong causality. This wrong view about mind makes people trust proposition attitude such as belief and wish is a kind of mental entity. This is the viewpoint of dualism. The task of Philosophy of Mind is delineate the truly demonstrate and significance. Reconstruct the mental structure, causality and kinetics.
Keywords/Search Tags:Eliminative Materialism, Folk Psychology, proposition attitude, Deconstruction
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