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Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism

Philosophy Bites

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What Does This Mean for Philosophy?

The concept of melancholy was quite different from our concept depression. Now we've more or less eliminated that concept and have a different, mormedical concept of depression. Another example would be the notion of demonic possession in our culture. You've got this hypothesis that various folk psychological concepts will be eliminated as neuro psychology, neuro biology progresses. What does that mean for philosophy? Because there are some styles of doing philosophy where people sit in an armchair and reflect on the concepts that they happen to have. I really want to know whether those concepts uly apply. So when it comes to understanding perception, decision making and choice, i want to know not about what you might mean by those things

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