Philosophy A-Level
Eliminative Materialism
What Eliminative Materialism means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Eliminative Materialism
The radical physicalist claim that our common-sense 'folk psychology' understanding of the mind is fundamentally flawed and will be replaced by neuroscience.
Topics that use Eliminative Materialism
- Metaphysics of mind (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Category Mistake
- Epiphenomenalism
- Folk Psychology
- Functionalism
- Leibniz's Law
- Multiple Realizability
- Non-reductive Physicalism
- Property Dualism
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