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PRONUNCIATION OF ELIMINATIVISM

eliminativism  [ɪˈlɪmɪnətɪvɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELIMINATIVISM

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Eliminativism is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ELIMINATIVISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

eliminativism

Eliminative materialism

Eliminative materialism is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. Its primary claim is that people's common-sense understanding of the mind is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe in do not exist. Some eliminativists argue that no coherent neural basis will be found for many everyday psychological concepts such as belief or desire, since they are poorly defined. Rather, they argue that psychological concepts of behaviour and experience should be judged by how well they reduce to the biological level. Other versions entail the non-existence of conscious mental states such as pain and visual perceptions. Eliminativism stands in opposition to reductive materialism, which argues that a mental state is well defined, and that further research will result in a more detailed, but not different understanding. An intermediate position is revisionary materialism, which will often argue that the mental state in question will prove to be somewhat reducible to physical phenomena - with some changes to the common sense concept. Eliminativism about a class of entities is the view that that class of entities does not exist.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ELIMINATIVISM


activism
ˈæktɪˌvɪzəm
anticivism
ˌæntɪˈsɪvɪzəm
atavism
ˈætəˌvɪzəm
Bolshevism
ˈbɒlʃɪvɪzəm
civism
ˈsɪvɪzəm
cognitivism
ˈkɒɡnɪtɪˌvɪzəm
collectivism
kəˈlɛktɪˌvɪzəm
constructivism
kənˈstrʌktɪˌvɪzəm
destructivism
dɪˈstrʌktɪvɪzəm
Fauvism
ˈfəʊvɪzəm
nativism
ˈneɪtɪˌvɪzəm
objectivism
əbˈdʒɛktɪˌvɪzəm
positivism
ˈpɒzɪtɪˌvɪzəm
primitivism
ˈprɪmɪtɪˌvɪzəm
progressivism
prəˈɡrɛsɪvɪzəm
recidivism
rɪˈsɪdɪˌvɪzəm
relativism
ˈrɛlətɪˌvɪzəm
Saivism
ˈsaɪvɪzəm
subjectivism
səbˈdʒɛktɪˌvɪzəm
Vaishnavism
ˈvɪʃnəˌvɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELIMINATIVISM

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WORDS THAT END LIKE ELIMINATIVISM

clicktivism
corporativism
descriptivism
emotivism
favism
incivism
intuitivism
lactivism
legal positivism
logical positivism
Menshevism
negativism
noncognitivism
nonobjectivism
passivism
perspectivism
prescriptivism
slacktivism
slactivism
Slavism

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about eliminativism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELIMINATIVISM»

Discover the use of eliminativism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to eliminativism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction
This Third Edition builds on these strengths, and incorporates new material on theories of consciousness, computationalism, the language of thought, and animal minds as well as other emerging areas of research.ãee With an updated reading ...
John Heil, 2013
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Dependencies, Connections, and Other Relations: A Theory of ...
19.4. ELIMINATIVISM Let us now consider a view that is even more radical than Kim's reduction- ism: eliminativism, or 'eliminative materialism.' Eliminativism is a view that is reductionist in spirit, but despairs of the possibility of psychophysical ...
Wim de Muijnck, 2003
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Readings on Color: The philosophy of color
3 Eliminativism Eliminativism about color is the thesis that no physical objects are colored. Since physical objects certainly look to be colored, eliminativism charges experience with widespread misrepresentation. Eliminativism is, perhaps ...
Alex Byrne, David R. Hilbert, 1997
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Deconstructing the Mind
have been working with, eliminativism is true if and only if ' is a belief refers to nothing. Let ELIMINATIVISM* be a doctrine that is true if and only if ' is a belief REFERS* to nothing; let ELIMINATIVISM** be a doctrine that is true if and only if ' is a ...
Stephen P. Stich, 1998
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The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism
confusion regarding eliminativism, for instance, could have a significant period of time (decades, even centuries) in which most philosophers and cognitive scientists knew nothing of the form ''S believes P.'' That is shocking enough. And yet ...
John Greco, 2008
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Deconstructing the Mind
have been working with, eliminativism is true if and only if ' is a belief refers to nothing. Let ELIMINATIVISM* be a doctrine that is true if and only if ' is a belief REFERS* to nothing; let ELIMINATIVISM** be a doctrine that is true if and only if ' is a ...
Brunswick Stephen P. Stich Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, 1996
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Descartes to gender ...
'Eliminativism' refers to the view that mental phenomena -for example, beliefs, desires, conscious states - do not exist. Although this can seem absurd on its face , in the twentieth century it has gained a wide variety of adherents, for example, ...
Edward Craig, 1998
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Index
7 Eliminativism We have seen that functional/relational analyses of colour qualia face serious difficulties. We have also seen that treating colour qualia as intrinsic properties also encounters a serious obstacle, in the form of the explanatory ...
Edward Craig, 1998
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Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction
This view—eliminative materialism, or eliminativism, for short—has been defended by Patricia and Paul Churchland, among others. Eliminativism is worth mention for two reasons. First, it represents one natural extension of Dennett's thoughts ...
‎1998
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The Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive ...
But our argument linking connectionism to eliminativism will work only for a restricted domain of connectionist models, interpreted in a particular way; the main task of Section IV is to say what that domain is and how the models in the domain ...
John D. Greenwood, 1991

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELIMINATIVISM»

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Alan Turing and the New Emergentists
... philosophical debates anyway -- even embrace identity theories or eliminativism: the latter being the view that mind and consciousness and ... «Discovery Institute, Feb 15»
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Aristotle, Descartes and Materialism: On the Soul and Body
... Rosenberg's recent The Atheist's Guide to Reality promotes a version of eliminativism[,] but the conclusion that a consistent materialism leads ... «Patheos, Oct 14»
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Why Can't We Explain the Brain?
... conceptual background, from Paul and Patricia Churchland's philosophic defense of Crick's hypothesis in eliminativism -- the view that there ... «Discovery Institute, Jun 14»
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Cognitive science and threats to free will
Now, most philosophers agree that if this kind of ruthlessly reductionist eliminativism were correct, free will would be under dire threat. But it is ... «Practical Ethics, May 14»
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Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility
The result, in his case, is an uncomfortable endorsement of eliminativism, uncomfortable because it leaves unresolved the way to handle his ... «Metapsychology, Oct 12»
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Aristotle, Call Your Office
... naturalists are willing to embrace it”though Alex Rosenberg's recent The Atheist's Guide to Reality promotes a version of eliminativism”but the ... «First Things, Oct 12»
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The Maze of Moral Relativism
Why did the latter rejection lead to relativism, but the former to eliminativism? In the simultaneity case, Einstein showed that while the world ... «New York Times, Jul 11»
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An Amoral Manifesto (Part II)
Indeed, I did not stop with moral relativism but went all the way to moral eliminativism; in other words, as I have explained, I now believe it more apt and more ... «Philosophy Now, Nov 10»
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…of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves…
... which comes in any number of reductionist forms (the most incoherent, absurd, and yet logically inevitable of which is called “eliminativism”). «First Things, Oct 10»

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