Revisiting the Mind-Brain Reductionisms: Contra Dualism and Eliminativism
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2016.2.24536Keywords:
Dualism. Eliminativism. Moral Beliefs. Naturalism. Normativity. Reductionism.Abstract
In this paper, I should like to argue against both eliminative materialism and substance/property dualism, aiming more specifically at the reductionist arguments offered by the Churchlands’ and Swinburne’s versions thereof, insofar as they undermine moral beliefs qua first-personish accounts dismissed as folk psychology by the former, as the latter regards them as supervening on natural events extendedly, that is, necessarily both ways of the biconditional linking mental and physical substances (for every A-substance x there is a B-substance y, such that necessarily if y exists x exists).
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