Churchland, Nagel, and Their Severe Critique of Folk Psychology


Tumkaya S.

TEOREMA, cilt.40, sa.3, ss.5-27, 2021 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 40 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Dergi Adı: TEOREMA
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Fuente Academica Plus, Periodicals Index Online, Philosopher's Index, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.5-27
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Thomas Nagel, Churchland, Objective Phenomenology, Eliminative Materialism, Folk Psychology, Subjective Aspect of Experience, CONSCIOUSNESS, NEUROPHILOSOPHY
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this paper, I attempt to show that Thomas Nagel and Patricia Churchland, two seemingly very different philosophers of mind, in fact resemble each other quite closely in their severe critique of folk psychology. Due to folk psychology's deep inadequacies, both Nagel and Churchland have suggested important revisions to it, which, strikingly, have led both of them to call their positions "revisionist". This paper makes a significant contribution to the philosophy of mind literature, since almost all philosophers, including the Churchlands and Nagel themselves, understand the Churchlands and Nagel to espouse completely different philosophical views on these matters.