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In his now-canonical 1981 paper ‘Eliminative Materialism and the
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Propositional Attitudes’,5 Churchland summarizes eliminative materi-
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alism (EM) as:
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Propositional Attitudes’⁵, Churchland summarizes eliminative materialism (EM) as:
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> the thesis that our commonsense conception of psychological phe- nomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both the principles and the ontology of that theory will eventually be displaced, rather than smoothly reduced, by com- pleted neuroscience. Our mutual understanding and even our intro- spection may then be reconstituted within the conceptual framework of completed neuroscience, a theory we may expect to be more pow- erful by far than the commonsense psychology it displaces, and more substantially integrated within physical science generally.
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> (P. M. Churchland, 1989: 1)
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