eliminativists

You may recall me saying that materialism collapses unless it's really eliminitavist, which is why I give eliminativists credit for intellectual honesty and consistency.

Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

'Mechanisms and representations' is precisely the insidious dualistic picture the eliminativists are trying to eliminate.

Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

Our common-sense understanding of belief is entirely wrong, however treating people, animals and even computers as if they had beliefs, is often a successful strategy – The major proponents of this view, Daniel Dennett and Lynne Rudder Baker, are both eliminativists in that they believe that beliefs are not a scientifically valid concept, but they don't go as far as rejecting the concept of belief as a predictive device.

Blurring the Line 2007

They don't want to be either eliminativists or dualists in their ontology of mind.

Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

On the other hand, eliminativists will respond that the useful and widespread use of a conceptual scheme does not argue for its truth (Churchland 1989, Ch. 1).

Connectionism Garson, James 2007

To establish this claim, eliminativists typically endorse two central and controversial claims which we will examine below.

Eliminative Materialism Ramsey, William 2007

Thus, there have been a number of eliminativists about different aspects of human nature in the history of philosophy.

Eliminative Materialism Ramsey, William 2007

From the eliminativists point of view, an allegiance to folk psychology, like allegiance to folk (Aristotelian) physics, stands in the way of scientific progress.

Connectionism Garson, James 2007

Reductive materialists can be viewed as eliminativists with respect to an immaterial soul.

Eliminative Materialism Ramsey, William 2007

Moreover, while eliminativists have typically framed the vulnerability of commonsense mental notions in terms of a false folk psychological theory, it is important to note that, at least in principle, eliminativism does not require such an assumption.

Eliminative Materialism Ramsey, William 2007