PHILOSOPHY - NEUROSCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY 7: Eliminative Materialism

In this Wireless Philosophy video, we ask whether our familiar “folk psychological” ways of explaining and predicting human behavior could and should eventually be replaced by the more scientifically-grounded accounts being developed by neuroscientists. If neuroscience ends up giving us a more precise and reliable understanding of human behavior, will we still have any reason to believe in things like desires, beliefs, emotions, or any of the other mental states posited by folk psychology?

View our Neuroscience and Philosophy learning module and other videos in this series here: https://www.wi-phi.com

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