Restrictive Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes

@inproceedings{Holman2011RestrictiveMA,
  title={Restrictive Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes},
  author={Bennett Holman},
  year={2011}
}

• Bennett Holman
• Published 2011

It has been argued that naturalizing the mind will result in the elimination of the ontology of folk psychology (e.g. beliefs and desires). This paper draws from a wide range of empirical literature, including from developmental and cross-cultural psychology, in building an argument for a position dubbed “restrictive materialism”. The position holds that while the ontology of folk psychology is overextended, there is a restricted domain in which the application of the folk ontology remains… CONTINUE READING

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

View Paper