El materialismo eliminatavista de los Churchland
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Gomila Benejam, Antoni
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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Universidad de León: Servicio de Publicaciones 1990
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Contextos ISSN 0212-6192 Nº 15-16, 1990, pags. 241-259
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Eliminativistic materialism has experienced a renewed push during the eighties, through the work of Paul and Patricia Churchland. They defend a neuroscientific approach to the study of mind, against the intentional approach of the commonsense notion of mind ("folk psychology"). This paper presents, fist, their reasons for considering "folk psychology" an empirical theory, and, moreover, a false one, one deemed to be eliminated from our scientific framework. Then, the nature of their neuroscientific alternative is analyzed and, following Baker (1986), considered incoherent, on the grounds that its very formulation presupposes the intentional background it tries to undermine.