[Wittrs] Re: Who and What is a Cartesian?
- From: "gabuddabout" <gabuddabout@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:27:52 -0000
In _Meaning in Mind: Fodor and his critics_, there is a paper by Dennett called
something like "Granny's Campaign for Safe Science" where Dennett seems to rip
Fodor a new one and in passing labels Searle some sort of dualist but doesn't
specify Searle's so-called dualism.
The idea is simple. If you are a Wittgensteinian criteriologist (and/or
quietist, eliminativist, epiphenomenalist, minimalist of whatever stamp might
yet be printed) about consciousness (remember that consciousness as such cannot
be studied by science according to Dennett because only third-person evidence
can count), then any assertion to the contrary will automatically be
interpreted as:
1. Idiosyncratic.
2. Antiscience.
3. Incoherent (Hacker who thinks that the proposal that the brain causes
consciousness is incoherent.
That's why Searle coins "biological naturalism" to be such as to be sensitive
to the facts and different from the conceptual dualism that is inherent in (it
really is don't you know) eliminative, quietistic, criteriological,
epiphenomenal, property dualist, materialist (in its mostly non-idiosyncratic
reductive forms), computationalist, and even connectionist forms of grappling
with the so-called mind-body problem.
After Dennett's spanking of Fodor, Fodor replies with such swiftness that it
appears that Dennett is pissing block letters in the cold snowjob of
philosophical rigor while Fodor is doing so much better what with his ability
to show up the block letters with cursive.
Now, after all that, please don't eat the snow!
Or, read the exchange and learn about just how breezy Dennett can be and how
gullible a public he may be presupposing.
After all that, imagine Fodor and another collaborating on a project published
just this year: _What Darwin Got Wrong_.
After the knee-jerks, read that too!
Cheers,
Budd
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