Journal article
Why literalism is still the best game in town: Replies to Drayson, Machery, and Schwitzgebel
Mind & language, Vol.35(5), pp.687-693
11/2020
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12307
Abstract
I respond to the main criticisms raised by Schwitzgebel, Machery, and Drayson of the main arguments of Pieces of mind in favor of the position I call literalism. Schwitzgebel's mainly supportive commentary decries the Cartesian assumption that mindedness is an all or nothing affair. Machery claims that there is an alternative to literalism that is a better interpretation of the uses of psychological predicates across species. Drayson argues that literalism is mistaken on a number of fundamental metaphysical issues. I conclude that literalism emerges even stronger as a result of confronting their excellent criticisms.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Why literalism is still the best game in town: Replies to Drayson, Machery, and Schwitzgebel
- Creators
- Carrie Figdor - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Mind & language, Vol.35(5), pp.687-693
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Oxford, UK
- DOI
- 10.1111/mila.12307
- ISSN
- 0268-1064
- eISSN
- 1468-0017
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2020
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070147802771
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