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Explain Paul Churchland's theory of 'eliminative materialism'. Do you think that it is possible to eliminate folk psychology and replace it with theories and explanations from neuroscience? To begin this essay I will define what we mean by eliminative materialism and attempt to explain it. I will show how it differs to reductive materialism and how we can apply it to examples. I will go on to provide arguments both for and against the elimination of folk psychology in favour of neuroscience, then finally offer a conclusion in favour of one or the other. My arguments concern the shortcomings of folk psychology, the problem of qualia, the incompatibility between folk psychology and neuroscience, and finally the problem of determinism in reconciling the two. Eliminative materialism is the view that all mental states and processes as we ordinarily conceive of them simply do not exist. Eliminative materialism also doubts that the neuroscientific account...

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