Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80 (4):324-345 (1999)
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Contemporary philosophy of mind is dominated by a conception of
our propositional attitude concepts as comprising a proto-scientific causal-explanatory
theory of behavior. This conception has given rise to a spate of
recent worries about the prospects for “naturalizing” the theory. In this paper
I return to the roots of the “theory-theory” of the attitudes in Wilfrid Sellars’s
classic “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.” I present an alternative to
the theory-theory’s account of belief in the form of a parody of Sellars’s “Myth
of Jones,” one that highlights the normative and pragmatic aspects of this
concept and, hopefully, enables us to bypass questions about its physical
“realization.”
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Keywords | Attitude Belief Causation Epistemology History Sellars, W |
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DOI | 10.1111/1468-0114.00087 |
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