LECTURE FOUR ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM 取消式唯物主义(或译为“消除式唯物主义”)
LECTURE FOUR ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM 取消式唯物主义（或译为“消除式唯物主义”）
THE FIRST APPROXIMATION TO ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM(对取消式唯物主义 的权宜性表达) Eliminative materialism ( or eliminativism取消主义) is the radical claim that our ordinary, common-sense understanding of p the mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist
THE FIRST APPROXIMATION TO ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM (对取消式唯物主义 的权宜性表达) Eliminative materialism (or eliminativism 取消主义) is the radical claim that our ordinary, common-sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM AND THE MIND/BRAIN IDENTITY THEORY ( D According to identity theory we can legitimately talk about mind but we need to keep the very fact in mind that any talk about metal states is just another way of talking about the corresponding brain states Parallel to this case: it is fairly okay to talk about water, but you need to know that water is nothing but h,o
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM AND THE MIND/BRAIN IDENTITY THEORY (I) According to identity theory, we can legitimately talk about mind, but we need to keep the very fact in mind that any talk about metal states is just another way of talking about the corresponding brain states. Parallel to this case: it is fairly okay to talk about water, but you need to know that water is nothing but H2O
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM AND THE MIND/BRAIN IDENTITY THEORY (ID According to eliminative materialism, we cannot legitimately talk about mind, and we need to keep the very fact in mind that any talk about the menta states is nonsense and hence should be eliminated rather than be reduced to another vocabulary(say, of the brain states Parallel to these cases: it is wildly wrong to talk about Phlogiston(燃素) in modern chemistry or ether(以太is the term used to describe a medium for the propagation of light) in modern physics, since they do not exist at all By the way, the Michelson-Morley experiment(Ey 尔逊默雷实验) was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in Cleveland, Ohio. Its results are generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the theory of ether
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM AND THE MIND/BRAIN IDENTITY THEORY (II) According to eliminative materialism, we cannot legitimately talk about mind, and we need to keep the very fact in mind that any talk about the mental states is nonsense, and hence should be eliminated, rather than be reduced to another vocabulary (say, of the brain states). Parallel to these cases: it is wildly wrong to talk about Phlogiston (燃素) in modern chemistry or ether(以太is the term used to describe a medium for the propagation of light) in modern physics, since they do not exist at all. By the way, the Michelson–Morley experiment (麦克 尔逊—默雷实验) was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in Cleveland, Ohio. Its results are generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the theory of ether
SO THE CONCLUSION IS: ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM IS DEFINITELY MORE RADIAL THAN IDENTITY THEORY, INCLUDING TYPE-TO-TYPE IDENTITY THEROY AND TOKEN-TO-TOKEN THEORY
SO THE CONCLUSION IS: ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM IS DEFINITELY MORE RADIAL THAN IDENTITY THEORY, INCLUDING TYPE-TO-TYPE IDENTITY THEROY AND TOKEN-TO-TOKEN THEORY