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Ah, the 1980s: Roseanne, The Cosby Show, “Let’s Dance,” U2, Ronnie and Nancy, Princess Di — and eliminative materialism dominating the philosophy of mind (ahem!). Paul and Patricia Churchland didn’t invent the view, although they certainly brought it to wide philosophical attention as a central component of their neurophilosophy. At stake was supposed to be the status of our commonsense conception of the mental, our belief-desire “folk” psychology, which grounded not only perennial philosophy, but also our legal institutions and many of our social-interactive practices. Many philosophers took public stands on eliminative materialism — a few for it, most against. Few denied the gravity of what seemed to be at issue.
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Bickle, J. (2014). Little-e Eliminativism in Mainstream Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience: Tensions for Neuro-Normativity. In: Wolfe, C.T. (eds) Brain Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230369580_8
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