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IN DEFENCE OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL OBJECTION TO MENTAL FICTIONALISM

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Márton M., Tőzsér J.

Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu

2020

vol. 27

issue 2

169 – 186

In this paper, we defend the main claims of our earlier paper “Mental Fictionalism as an Under motivated Theory” (in The Monist) from Gábor Bács’s criticism, which appeared in his “Mental fictionalism and epiphenomenal qualia” (in Dialectica). In our earlier paper, we tried to show that mental fictionalism is an under motivated theory, so there is no good reason to give up the realist approach to the folk psychological discourse. The core of Bács’s criticism consists in that our argumentation rests on an equivocation concerning the folk psychological concepts of conscious experiences. In our present argumentation, at first, we shortly recapitulate our earlier argumentation and Bács’s main objection to it. After that, we argue against the case of equivocation, claiming that it rests on a highly implausible and unsupported verification approach. Lastly, in answering another remark of Bács’s, we discuss the possibility of a realist mental fictionalism and conclude that it is an incoherent standpoint.

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IN DEFENCE OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL OBJECTION TO MENTAL FICTIONALISM