Patricia Churchland and eliminative materialists argue that positing irreducibly distinct conceptual levels often reflects folk-psychological bias rather than genuine ontological stratification.
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Patricia Churchland(as a philosopher who critiques evolutionary psychology arguments)
A contemporary philosopher known for studying how neuroscience and biology can explain the mind and human behavior, challenging purely philosophical approaches.
Stratification(in formal logic and set theory)
In Quine's logic, a property of formulas where you can assign levels or ranks to variables in a way that respects the rules of the system—essentially, a formal way of keeping things organized and consistent.
eliminative materialism(philosophy of mind)
The view that folk psychological states (such as beliefs and propositional memories) do not exist because nothing in a successful scientific account of cognition shares the central properties attributed to those states