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What Price Neurophilosophy ?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2022
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If the appropriate cognitive model of the mind is a connectionist model, then what does the future of folk psychology (FP) look like? “Bleak” say the eliminative materialists. In several recent articles and books Paul and Patricia Churchland have been arguing by demonstration that there are models on which to explain all behavior—not merely cognitive behavior—models which are more fruitful than FP. These models, which are connectionist in nature, are supposed to describe a better theory of behavior than FP, and so will eventually replace it. In this paper I look at several arguments the Churchlands have advanced for the thesis that FP will be replaced in a mature cognitive science, i.e., that connectionism will supplant FP.
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- Part XII. Issues in the Philosophy of Psychology
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- Copyright © 1992 by the Philosophy of Science Association
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I am indebted to Berent Enc and Malcolm Forster for comments and suggestions based on earlier drafts of this paper, and to Elliott Sober for helpful discussions and suggestions.