In defence of the phenomenological objection to mental fictionalism

Title:

In defence of the phenomenological objection to mental fictionalism

Creator:

Márton, Miklós and Tőzsér, János

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:cc2b9846-57f7-4787-a781-ea1bc89bfe78
uuid:cc2b9846-57f7-4787-a781-ea1bc89bfe78
doi:10.31577/orgf.2020.27202

Subject:

mental fictionalism, folk psychology, mental antirealism, verificationism, and conceptual dependence

Type:

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Description:

In this paper, we defend the main claims of our earlier paper “Mental Fictionalism as an Undermotivated Theory” (in The Monist) from Gábor Bács’s criticism, which appeared in his “Mental fictionalism and epiphenomenal qualia” (in Dialectica). In our earlier paper, we tried to show that mental fictionalism is an undermotivated theory, so there is no good reason to give up the realist approach to the folk psychological discourse. The core of Bács’s criticism consists in that our argumentation rests on an equivocation concerning the folk psychological concepts of conscious experiences. In our present argumentation, at first, we shortly recapitulate our earlier argumentation and Bács’s main objection to it. After that, we argue against the case of equivocation, claiming that it rests on a highly implausible and unsupported verificationist approach. Lastly, in answering another remark of Bács’s, we discuss the possibility of a realist mental fictionalism and conclude that it is an incoherent standpoint.

Language:

Slovak

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

169-186

Source:

Organon F: filozofický časopis | 2020 Volume:27 | Number:2

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