Factualism and anti-descriptivism: a challenge to the materialist criterion of fundamentality

Title:

Factualism and anti-descriptivism: a challenge to the materialist criterion of fundamentality

Creator:

Castro, Víctor Fernández

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:d1d67d82-dbdb-4ec2-b6ba-03ef74727089
uuid:d1d67d82-dbdb-4ec2-b6ba-03ef74727089
doi:10.31577/orgf.2022.29105

Subject:

descriptivism, factualism, fundamental categories, and mental vocabulary

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

Inspired by the work of Sellars, Cumpa (2014, 2018) and Buonomo (2021) have argued that we can evaluate our metaphysical proposals on fundamental categories in terms of their capacity for reconciling the scientific and the manifest image of the world. This criterion of fundamentality would allow us to settle the question of which categories among those proposed in the debate—e.g., substance, structure or facts—have a better explanatory value. The aim of this essay is to argue against a central assumption of the criterion: semantic descriptivism. Specifically, I aim at showing that the criterion rests on the idea that the manifest picture is mostly a description of the world, and thus, it commits us with certain realism. Instead, I argue that at least some of the vocabulary we use to construct our manifest picture of the world, mental vocabulary, is evaluative rather than descriptive and thus creates problems in reconciling the manifest picture with scientific psychology and neurosciences. I conclude with some remarks on alternatives that could provide a way out of the fundamentality criterion.

Language:

Slovak

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

109-127

Source:

Organon F: filozofický časopis | 2022 Volume:29 | Number:1

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CDK

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