PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Folk Psychology, Inverted Spectrum

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 100W
• Professor: Dc Mc

Document Summary

This is another criticism of cartesian dualism, and one that both identity theorists and functionalists hope to meet: intentional states, sensational states. People raise the possibility of inverted spectra that are undetectable in terms of behaviour as a problem for functionalism. Churchland offers a perhaps more radical position there are no mental states of the sort that folk psychology" posits. We should reject folk psychology in favour of eliminativism because: fp does not explain much, if anything, earlier folk concepts we now think are confused and false. Because the gods: the odds of things turning out as identity theorists or functionalists claim is a priori small. Why constrain neuroscience to the categories of.