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It's called Eliminative Materialism, and it's most prominent advocates are
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American Journal of Physiology 187 (1956): 399 – 402; “Eliminative Responses in Mice and Rats and the Problem of ‘Emotionality,’” with T. Schneirla.
Ethel Tobach. 2009
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[1981]: “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes”, Journal of Philosophy,
Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009
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I mean, have a look at the Stanford entry for Eliminative Materialism sometime.
Blurring the Line 2007
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Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind.
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"Eliminative materialists" eliminate themselves from consideration by anyone who has a consciousness and freedom of will.
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Eliminative materialists go further than Descartes on this point, since they challenge of the existence of various mental states that Descartes took for granted.
Blurring the Line 2007
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Eliminative materialists claim that an ontologically radical theory change of this sort awaits the theoretical posits of folk psychology.
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Eliminative materialism (or eliminativism) 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.
Blurring the Line 2007
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Eliminative celibacy, ordaining women to the priesthood, and lay involvement in liturgy all has very much to do with the blurring of the identity of fatherhood.
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