Open AccessAcerca da taxonomia do mental para contextos que requerem neutralidade
Author(s) -
Filipe Lazzeri
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
principia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1808-1525
pISSN - 1414-4247
DOI - 10.5007/1808-1711.2012v16n3p365
Subject(s) - taxonomy (biology) , sketch , epistemology , set (abstract data type) , context (archaeology) , psychology , cognitive science , philosophy , computer science , history , botany , archaeology , algorithm , biology , programming language
Ordinary psychological (or mental) predicates, and the phenomena we report to by means of them, can be grouped together into different categories. For instance, it is usual to group together phenomena such as belief and expectancy in a category of ‘propositional attitudes’, whereas sensations, like pain and itch, in a distinct one. Which taxonomy of the mental would be plausible to be adopted in contexts such as those of introductory books to the philosophy of mind, i.e., when we need to set out only from minimal assumptions regarding these predicates and phenomena? This article (1) suggests some desiderata and principles for such a taxonomy; (2) exposes and critically assesses some taxonomies presented in introductory books to the philosophy of mind; and (3) proposes the sketch of an alternative one (for the same kind of context)