?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Beyond+Eliminative+Materialism%3A+Some+unnoticed+implications+of+Paul+Churchland's+Pragmatic+Pluralism&rft.creator=Rockwell%2C+Teed&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=Paul+Churchland's+epistemology+contains+a+tension+between+two+positions%2C+which+I+will+call+pragmatic+pluralism+and+eliminative+materialism.+Pragmatic+pluralism+became+predominant+as+Churchland's+epistemology+became+more+neurocomputationally+inspired%2C+which+saved+him+from+the+skepticism+implicit+in+certain+passages+of+the+theory+of+reduction+he+outlined+in+Scientific+Realism+and+the+Plasticity+of+Mind.+However%2C+once+he+replaces+eliminativism+with+a+neurologically+inspired+pragmatic+pluralism%2C+Churchland+1)+cannot+claim+that+folk+psychology+might+be+a+false+theory%2C+in+any+significant+sense+2)+cannot+claim+that+the+concepts+of+Folk+psychology+might+be+empty+of+extension+and+lack+reference.+3)+cannot+sustain+Churchland's+criticism+of+Dennett's+%22intentional+stance%22+.+4)+cannot+claim+to+be+a+form+of+scientific+realism%2C+in+the+sense+of+believing+that+what+science+describes+is+somehow+realer+that+what+other+conceptual+systems+describe.&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F379%2F1%2FBeyondEM.html&rft.identifier=++Rockwell%2C+Teed++(1995)+Beyond+Eliminative+Materialism%3A+Some+unnoticed+implications+of+Paul+Churchland's+Pragmatic+Pluralism.++%5BConference+Paper%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F379%2F