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Pat Churchland on Eliminative Materialism

Philosophy Bites

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The Role of a Philosopher in Understanding Decisions

There is a sense in which we need these concepts, the folk psychology concepts of our age. We're not going to jetteson them just because somebody makes a discovery in your science. The high level concepts that we use from folk psychology will be replaced until we have a good science to replace them with. Concepts like trust and attachment turns out to be extremely important in describing human behavior.

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