Title Šiuolaikinė psichofizinio reduktyvizmo ir antireduktyvizmo polemika ir jos metodologinės išdavos /
Another Title The controversy on psychophysical reducion and its methodological implications.
Authors Dagys, Jonas
DOI 10.15388/Problemos.2012.0.1875
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Is Part of Problemos.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2012, priedas, p. 22-36.. ISSN 1392-1126. eISSN 2424-6158
Keywords [eng] philosophy of mind ; reductionism ; knowledge argument ; zombie argument ; identity thesis
Abstract [eng] The object of this paper is the controversy about the materialist accounts of sensory qualia in analytic philosophy of recent decades. The first section deals with the identity thesis and reductionist strategy connected to it that has established and shaped the development of materialist problematics as central to philosphy of mind. The second section discusses two most infiuential antireductionist arguments - the knowledge argument and the argument from the conceivability of zombies. The the paper focus es on the epistemological and semantic aspects of the controversy that can be translated into the ditferent interpretations of two-dimensional modal matrix, which allows to specify the disagreement between reductionism and antireductionism. Finally the conclusion arrived at in the last section is that the premises of antireductionist arguments are not compatible with the stable connection between mental and physiological domains, and thus contemporary philosophy ofmind brings outthe dilemma: eitherwe hypostatize the introspectively available qualitative content on the basis of epistemic asymmetry of the mental and physical concepts, thereby deriving a dualist ontology, and embrace all the sceptical consequences, or we prefer the extensional explanation of concepts, without intemalist ambitions, conceivability of zombies, and antireductionist conclusions.
Published Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2012
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