What to say to a skeptical metaphysician: a defense manual for cognitive and behavioral scientists.
The Behavioral and brain sciences October 1, 2004 Don Ross, David Spurrett
A wave of recent work in metaphysics seeks to undermine the anti-reductionist, functionalist consensus of the past few decades in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. That consensus apparently legitimated a focus on what systems do, without necessarily and always requiring attention to the details of how systems are constituted. The new metaphysical challenge contends that many states and...