Abstract
Eliminative materialism, basically speaking, is the doctrine that the entities typed by folk psychological categories, such as belief and desire, are to be eliminated from our ontology. This doctrine should be distinguished from reductive materialism which does not deny the ontological status of the entities in question, but claims that the folk psychological concepts can be reduced to physiological or even physical concepts.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bogdan, R. J.: 1988, ’Mental attitudes and common sense psychology: The case against elimination, Nous 22, 369–398.
Churchland, Paul M.: 1981, ‘Eliminative materialism and propositional attitudes’, Journal of Philosophy 78, 67–90.
Churchland, Paul M.: 1989, A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science ,MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Copp, D. and Macintosh, J. J. (eds.): 1985, Philosophy of Mind: Series II ,Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy, Guelph, Ontario.
Davidson, D.: 1970, ‘Mental events’, Reprinted in Davidson (1980).
Davidson, D.: 1980, Essays on Actions and Events ,Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Elman, J. L.: 1989, ‘Representation and structure in connectionist models’, Technical Report 8903, Center for Research in Language, Univ. of California, San Diego.
Hooker, C. A.: 1981, Toward a general theory of reduction, Dialogue 20, 38–59; 201–236; 496–529.
Fodor, J. A.: 1978, ‘Propositional attitudes’, Monist 61, 501–521.
Fodor, J.: 1975, The Language of Thought ,Harvard Univ. Press.
Foss, J.: 1985, ‘A materialist’s misgivings about eliminative materialism,’ In Copp and Macintosh (eds.) (1985).
Garfield, J. L.: 1988, Belief in Psychology: A Study in the Ontology of Mind ,MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Hellman, G. P. and Thompson, F. W.: 1975, ‘Physicalism: ontology, determination, and reduction’, The Journal of Philosophy 72, 551–564.
Houng, Y.-H.: 1991, Classicism, Connectionism, and the Concept of Level ,Ph.D. Thesis, Indiana University.
Kim, J.: 1984, ‘Concepts of supervenience’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research XLV ,153–176.
Kitcher, P.: 1984, ‘In defense of intentional psychology’, Journal of Philosophy 81, 89–106.
Lycan, W. G. and Pappas, G. S.: 1972, ‘What is eliminative materialism’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 50, 149–159.
Nickles, T.: 1973, Two concepts of intertheoretical reduction’, Journal of Philosophy LXX, 181–201.
Pollack, J. B.: 1988, ‘Recursive auto-associative memory: devising compositional distributed representations’, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society ,Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.J.
Pollack, J. B.: 1990, ‘Recursive distributed representations’, Artificial Intelligence 46, 77–105.
Putnam, H.: 1973, ‘Reductionism and the nature of psychology’, Cognition 2, 131–146.
Putnam, H.: 1990a, Realism with a Human Face ,Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
Putnam, H.: 1990b, ‘Is the causal structure of the physical itself something physical?’, In Putnam (1990a), Ch. 5.
Robbin, J. W.: 1969, Mathematical Logic: A First Course ,Benjamin, N.Y.
Salthe, S. N.: 1985, Evolving Hierarchical Systems ,Columbia Univ. Press, N.Y.
Simon, H.: 1981, The Sciences of Artificial (2nd edition), The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Smolensky, P.: 1987, ‘On variable binding and the representation of symbolic structures in connectionist systems’, Technical Report CU-CS-355-87, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Colorado.
Smolensky, P.: 1988, ‘On the proper treatment of connectionism’, Behavioral and Brain Science 11, 1–74.
Stich, S. P.: 1978, ‘Autonomous psychology and the belief-desire thesis’, Monist 61, 573–591.
Stich, S. P.: 1983, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science ,MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Stich, S. P.: 1988, ‘From connectionism to eliminativism’, Behavioral and Brain Science 11, 53–54.
Van Gelder, T.: 1989, Distributed Representations ,Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Pittsburgh.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1993 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Houng, YH. (1993). Eliminative Materialism and Connectionism. In: Lin, CH., Fu, D. (eds) Philosophy and Conceptual History of Science in Taiwan. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 141. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2500-0_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2500-0_7
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-010-5103-3
Online ISBN: 978-94-011-2500-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive