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| Paul Churchland - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
| Paul Churchland (1942), Canadian philosopher of mind and neurophilosopher. His major works include Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind (1979), A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science (1989), and The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain (1995). His fields of specialization are neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of neuroscience.
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| Eliminate, Elimination, philosophy: the replacement of a linguistic expression by another in the case of a theory revision. The elimination is usually done either by a definition or by merging various observations under a common concept. See also reduction, reductionism, eliminative materialism, eliminative reductionism, meaning change, theory change, incommensurability._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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| Churchland, Paul | Elimination | Churchland | |
| Hintikka, Jaakko | Elimination | Hintikka | |
| Lewis, David K. | Elimination | Lewis | |
| Quine, W.V.O. | Elimination | Quine | |
| Simons, Peter M. | Elimination | Simons | |
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