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Eliminative materialism — (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. Its primary claim is that people s common sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people… … Wikipedia
science, philosophy of — Branch of philosophy that attempts to elucidate the nature of scientific inquiry observational procedures, patterns of argument, methods of representation and calculation, metaphysical presuppositions and evaluate the grounds of their validity… … Universalium
Philosophy of mind — A phrenological mapping[1] of the brain. Phrenology was among the first attempts to correlate mental functions with specific parts of the brain. Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental even … Wikipedia
Belief — is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true. [Citation last = Schwitzgebel first = Eric editor last = Zalta editor first = Edward contribution = Belief title = The Stanford Encyclopedia of… … Wikipedia
Intentionality — The term intentionality is often simplistically summarised as aboutness . According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is the distinguishing property of mental phenomena of being necessarily directed upon an object, whether real or imaginary .… … Wikipedia
Georges Rey — is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland.His book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind takes the reader into the middle of contemporary (mid 1990) debates in philosophy of mind. One major focus of Rey s effort is on the attempts of… … Wikipedia
Glossary of philosophical isms — This is a list of topics relating to philosophy that end in ism . compactTOC NOTOC A * Absolutism – the position that in a particular domain of thought, all statements in that domain are either absolutely true or absolutely false: none is true… … Wikipedia
eliminativism — The view that the terms in which we think of some area are sufficiently infected with error for it to be better to abandon them than to continue to try to give coherent theories of their use. Eliminativism should be distinguished from scepticism … Philosophy dictionary
qualia — The felt or phenomenal qualities associated with experiences, such as the feeling of a pain, or the hearing of a sound, or the viewing of a colour. To know what it is like to have an experience is to know its qualia. The idea that we first of all … Philosophy dictionary
realism/anti-realism — The standard opposition between those who affirm, and those who deny, the real existence of some kind of thing, or some kind of fact or state of affairs. Almost any area of discourse may be the focus of this dispute: the external world, the past… … Philosophy dictionary
