- Title
- Reduction as cognitive strategy
- Creator
- Hooker, Clifford
- Relation
- Paul Churchland p. 154-174
- Relation
- Contemporary Philosophy in Focus
- Relation
- http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521830119
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- The name 'Paul Churchland' is synonymous in many minds with eliminative materialism, the view that a materialist theory of mind will triumph, not by showing how the mental ascriptions of common sense or folk psychology reduce to neurophysiological conditions, but simply by eliminating the former as a bad theory and substituting its own, different concepts, principles, and data in its place. This looks nothing like reduction, which precisely saves the succeeded within the successor. Yet Churchland understood it as a process akin to reduction. To understand why, his treatment of reduction must be set within his larger vision of cognition and cognitive strategy. In his enthusiasm for a science-led revolution in our reconception of our world, ourselves included, Churchland is pursuing an agenda inspired by early-Feyerabend and his (Churchland's) contribution to reduction theory lies primarily in what he consequently taught us about its place among our epistemological strategies rather than any specific internal technical detail.
- Subject
- Paul Churchland; eliminative materialism; reduction; cognitive strategy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923835
- Identifier
- uon:9836
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780521830119
- Language
- eng
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