KnowraEliminative materialismLinked fromLinked fromThe 10 pages that link to Eliminative materialism, each with the reason it gives.All 10Related 1Compared with 9Hard problem of consciousnessCompared with: It challenges whether the concepts framing the hard problem describe real features at all.QualiaCompared with: It offers a broader materialist challenge to treating familiar mental properties as fundamental.Identity theoryCompared with: It challenges the assumption that ordinary mental kinds need neural identities.Substance dualismCompared with: It challenges the dualist’s reliance on familiar mental categories as evidence of a separate realm.Daniel DennettCompared with: Dennett’s intentional stance preserves belief and desire talk as useful explanatory patterns.Phenomenal consciousnessCompared with: It questions whether everyday talk of private experience tracks a real feature needing explanation.Mind–body dualismCompared with: It challenges the dualist premise that familiar mental categories track fundamental realities.EpiphenomenalismCompared with: Unlike epiphenomenalism, it questions whether familiar mental events exist as described.Folk psychologyCompared with: It challenges whether belief and desire explanations describe real mental states.Patricia ChurchlandRelated: Churchland is associated with this challenge to the completeness of folk psychology.