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Una propuesta de taxonomía para el eliminativismo [PDF]
Co-herencia: Revista de Humanidades, 2017 En este artículo, propongo una taxonomía general de diferentes de formas de eliminativismo. Para alcanzar este propósito, comienzo por explorar el eliminativismo desde una perspectiva amplia, proporcionando un cuadro comparativo de proyectos ...
Bernardo Pino
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Against natural kind eliminativism [PDF]
Synthese, 2020 It has recently been argued that the concept of natural kinds should be eliminated because it does not play a productive theoretical role and even harms philosophical research on scientific classification. We argue that this justification for eliminativism fails because the notion of ‘natural kinds’ plays another epistemic role in philosophical ...
Conix, Stijn, Chi, Pei-Shan
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Conceptual fragmentation and the rise of eliminativism [PDF]
European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2016 Pluralist and eliminativist positions have proliferated within both science and philosophy of science in recent decades. This paper asks the question why this shift of thinking has occurred, and where it is leading us. We provide an explanation which, if correct, entails that we should expect pluralism and eliminativism to transform other debates ...
Taylor, H., Vickers, P.
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Pain eliminativism: scientific and traditional
Synthese, 2015 Traditional eliminativism is the view that a term should be eliminated from everyday speech due to failures of reference. Following Edouard Machery, we may distinguish this traditional eliminativism about a kind and its term from a scientific eliminativism according to which a term should be eliminated from scientific discourse due to a lack of ...
Corns, Jennifer
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From Epiphenomenalism to Eliminativism?
, 2016 Jaegwon Kim used the causal exclusion argument as a weapon against non-reductive physicalism in the philosophy of mind. The aim of this paper is to inquire into the consequences of this argument in order to check weather they are devastating to the initial position.
Posłajko, Krzysztof
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The case for eliminativism about words. [PDF]
Synthese, 2022 AbstractWords are ubiquitous and familiar, and the concept of a word features both in common-sense ways of understanding the world, and in more theoretical discourse. Nonetheless, it has been repeatedly argued that there is no such thing as words. In this paper, I will set out a range of arguments for eliminativism about words, and indicate the most ...
Tasker N.
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Embodied pain, chronic pain, and Grahek's legacy [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2023 This paper argues in favour of the embodied approach to pain. We start by asserting that an appropriate philosophical treatment of pain must be empirically informed, rather than relying solely on the conceptual analysis typical of what we call "orthodox ...
Milojević Miljana, Subotić Vanja
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, 2016 Eliminativism about macroscopic material objects claims that we do not need to include tables in our ontology, and that any job – practical or theoretical – they have to do can be done by 'atoms arranged tablewise'.
Benovsky, Jiri
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Pluralism, Eliminativism, and the Definition of Art
Estetika, 2021 Traditional monist theories of art fail to account for the diversity of objects that intuitively strike many as belonging to the category art. Some today argue that the solution to this problem requires the adoption of some version of pluralism to ...
Christopher Bartel, Jack M. C. Kwong
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The mind-body problem between philosophy and the cognitive sciences
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2023 Here, I examine the main philosophical solutions to the mind-body problem distinguishing between “historicist” solutions that (more or less clearly) separate philosophy from science and solutions that instead result from a double “cognitive turn”, and ...
Sandro Nannini
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