On the Speculative Nature of Our Self Conception: A Reply to Some Criticisms

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 11:157-173 (1985)
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I must begin by thanking the editors for offering me the opportunity to respond to two of the other papers in this collection: ‘A Materialist's Misgivings about Eliminative Materialism,’ by Jeff Foss; and ‘Sensation, Theory, and Meaning,’ by Bonnie Thurston and Sam Coval. In some earlier publications I have defended eliminative materialism at some length, and in others I have argued that the semantics of common observation terms is exhausted by their inferential or conceptual role, to the exclusion of any purely phenomenological component. Foss criticizes the first thesis; Thurston and Coval, the second. I propose to defend both.

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