Eliminative materialism is the thesis that our common sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both the principles and ontology of that theory will eventually be displaced, rather than smoothly reduced, by completed neuroscience.


p. 67; As cited in: Paul K. Mose (2002). Contemporary Materialism: A Reader, p. 21 - "Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes," 1981

Paul Churchland Quotes

Eliminative materialism is the thesis that our common sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so...

Eliminative materialism is the thesis that our common sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so...

Eliminative materialism is the thesis that our common sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so...

Eliminative materialism is the thesis that our common sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so...