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The Churchlands' Eliminative Materialism: or The Result of Impatience
Author(s) -
Hunter Geoffrey
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9205.1995.tb00309.x
Subject(s) - materialism , patience , eliminative materialism , philosophy , epistemology , philosophy of language , philosophy of mind , theology , metaphysics
In the mid‐seventies I discovered that my patience with most main‐stream philosophy had run out. What had instead begun to seem promising was the new wave in philosophical method, which ceased to pander to “ordinary language” and which began in earnest to reverse the antiscientific bias typical of “linguistic analysis”… Since I was a materialist and hence believed that the mind is the brain.