[Wittrs] Re: Eliminative Materialism
- From: Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 08:36:54 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Sat, 4/3/10, SWM <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Moreover, I will say again: It is no argument against a
> view to attack its motivation(s)
I think it adds light to understand the motivations for a particular point of
view. And I repeat: eliminative materialism seems to me motivated by a fear of
Cartesian dualism, naively understood.
The eliminative materialist fails to understand that after one truly abandons
the Cartesian mind/matter dichotomy, one can then a la Searle assign properties
of mind to matter without transgressing reason.
The eliminativist correctly abandons the unwanted Cartesian concept of
non-physical mind but then he mistakenly holds onto the false Cartesian idea of
matter, which on the dualist view can have no subjective aspect, i.e., no
irreducible first-person ontology.
The eliminativist doubles his mistake when he, a la Dennett, falsely labels
those don't fall into the same trap "Cartesians".
-gts
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