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Eliminativism About Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter examines a radical philosophical position about consciousness: eliminativism. Eliminativists claim that consciousness does not exist and/or that talk of consciousness should be eliminated from science. These are strong positions to take, and require serious defence. In the first section, the chapter introduces the difference between entity
Elizabeth Irvine
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Why Eliminativism? [PDF]

open access: yesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2019
A central thesis of Steven French's brand of ontic structural realism has always been his eliminativism about objects. Unsurprisingly, this bold and controversial thesis has seen a lot of critical discussion. In his book The Structure of the World-Metaphysics & Representation, French accordingly defends this thesis against a range of challenges.
Wolff, J. E.; id_orcid
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The Many Theories of Mind: Eliminativism and Pluralism in Context [PDF]

open access: yesSynthÈse, 2022
In recent philosophy of science there has been much discussion of both pluralism, which embraces scientific terms with multiple meanings, and eliminativism, which rejects such terms.
Joseph Gough
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Explaining Eliminativism

2001
AbstractFolk ontology includes statues. Eliminativism denies that statues exist but says that there are atoms arranged statuewise. In this chapter, I explain eliminativism and define ‘arranged statuewise’. I also argue that eliminativism is neither obviously false nor contradictory.
Trenton Merricks
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AN UNSTABLE ELIMINATIVISM

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2005
Do folk objects exist? A selective eliminativism says that some do and some don't. One eye-catching version of this says that tennis players exist, although tennis balls and tennis rackets do not. In our paper, we focus critical attention upon a defense of such a view presented by Trenton Merricks in his book, Objects and Persons .
JOHN W. CARROLL, WILLIAM R. CARTER
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Sex Eliminativism

Biology and Philosophy
Aja Watkins, Marina DiMarco
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Eliminativism and the ambiguity of ?belief?

Synthese, 1995
It has recently been claimed (1) that mental states such as beliefs are theoretical entities and (2) that they are therefore, in principle, subject to theoretical elimination if intentional psychology were to be supplanted by a psychology not employing mentalistic notions.
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