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    It is not the case that Eliminative naturalists like Churchland argue that 'personhood' is a folk-psychological construct with no irreducible ontological status.

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    • 1.Personhood tracks morally and legally relevant features (moral agency, responsibility) that cannot be eliminated without incoherence.
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    • 2.Even if 'person' is conceptually constructed, constructed entities can have irreducible ontological status (money, nations do).
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    • 3.Eliminativism self-defeats: asserting the theory requires the very folk-psychological capacities it claims don't exist.
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    • 1.Folk psychology systematically mischaracterizes mental phenomena, similar to how phlogiston theory misdescribed combustion.
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    • 2.Neuroscience reveals no unified neural substrate corresponding to the folk concept of a unified 'person' or unified self.
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    • 3.Our best future physics may explain behavior without reference to irreducible persons, just as chemistry eliminated vital forces.
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