Deconstructing the Mind (Philosophy of Mind Series)

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:Stephen P. Stich

页数:232

出版时间:1998-12-17

价格:USD 60.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780195126662

丛书系列:PHILOSOPHY OF MIND SERIES

图书标签:心灵哲学哲学分析哲学

During the past two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have occupied center stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. A group of prominent philosophers known as eliminativists argue that advances in cognitive science and neuroscience will ultimately justify a rejection of our folk theory of mind because it gives a radically mistaken account of mental life. In Deconstructing the Mind, distinguished philosopher Stephen Stich, once a leading advocate of eliminativism, offers a bold and compelling reassessment of this view. The book opens with a groundbreaking multi-part essay in which Stich maintains that even if the sciences develop in the ways that eliminativists foresee, none of the arguments for ontological elimination are tenable. Succeeding essays explore folk psychology in more detail, develop a systematic critique of simulation theory, and counter widespread concern about naturalizing psychological properties.