Against eliminative materialism: From folk psychology to Völkersychologie

Greenwood, John D.

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“…Thus if our folk psychological explanations of human behavior are hopelessly inaccurate and inadequate, as Churchland (1981) claims, then we ought perhaps to abandon our familiar ontology of contentful psychological states, and any theoretical account of singular personhood that makes reference to it. I accept this conditional, but reject its antecendent (see Greenwood, 1992).…”

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Split‐brains and Singular Personhood

Greenwood

1993

The Southern J of Philosophy

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In this paper it is argued that the experimental data on commissurotomy patients provide no grounds for denying the singular personhood of commissurotomy patients. This is because, contrary to most philosophical accounts, there is no “unity of consciousness” discriminating condition for singular personhood that is violated in the case of commissurotomy patients, and because no contradictions arise when singular personhood is ascribed to commissurotomy patients.

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Section: Cognitive Accessmentioning

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Split‐brains and Singular Personhood

Greenwood

1993

The Southern J of Philosophy

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“…Selon cette vision, les personnes n'agissent pas sur la base de leurs croyances, buts, aspirations ou attentes, mais c'est plutôt la mise en route de leur réseau neural au niveau subpersonnel qui les incite à agir. Dans sa critique de l'éliminativisme, Greenwood (1992) affirme que les cognitions sont des facteurs psychologiques pourvus de contenus sémantiques dont le sens ne dépend en rien des propositions explicatives dans lesquelles elles figurent. Le phlogistique n'avait ni fondement empirique ni valeur explicative ou prédictive.…”

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Traité de psychologie de la motivation

Carré¹,

Fenouillet²

2009

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Ouvrage réalisé sous la direction de : Avec la collaboration de : Philippe CARRÉ Professeur en sciences de l'éducation à l'université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense. Fabien FENOUILLET Maître de conférences en sciences de l'éducation à l'université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense. Jacques AUBRET Professeur émérite de psychologie de l'orientation à l'Inetop (Cnam). Albert BANDURA Professeur de psychologie sociale, Stanford University (USA). Serge BLANCHARD Chercheur en psychologie de l'orientation à l'Inetop (Cnam). Étienne BOURGEOIS Professeur de sciences de l'éducation à l'université catholique de Louvain (Belgique). Philippe BRUNEL Maître de conférences HDR en sciences et techniques des activités physiques et sportives à l'université de Limoges. Noémie CARBONNEAU Doctorante, université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). Yves CHANTAL Maître de conférences à l'université de Limoges. Laurent COSNEFROY Maître de conférences en sciences de l'éducation à l'IUFM de Rouen. Antonia CSILLIK Maître de conférences en psychologie à l'université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense. Pierre-Henri FRANÇOIS Maître de conférences en psychologie sociale à l'université de Poitiers. Dominique GELPE Chercheur, laboratoire SACO, université de Poitiers et AFPA. Patrick GOSLING Professeur en psychologie du travail à l'université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense. Marc-André K. LAFRENIERE Doctorant, université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). Jacques LECOMTE Chargé de cours à l'université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense. Salvatore MAUGERI Maître de conférences en sociologie à l'université d'Orléans. Thierry MEYER Professeur de psychologie sociale à l'université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense. Sandrine SCHIANO-LOMORIELLO ATER à l'université de Limoges. Robert VALLERAND Professeur de psychologie sociale à l'université du Québec à Montréal (Canada).

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Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective

Bandura

1999

Asian J of Social Psycho

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This article presents the basic tenets of social cognitive theory. It is founded on a causal model of triadic reciprocal causation in which personal factors in the form of cognitive, affective and biological events, behavioral patterns, and environmental events all operate as interacting determinants that influence one another bidirectionally. Within this theory, human agency is embedded in a self theory encompassing self-organizing, proactive, self-reflective and selfregulative mechanisms. Human agency can be exercised through direct personal agency; through proxy agency relying on the efforts of intermediaries; and by collective agency operating through shared beliefs of efficacy, pooled understandings, group aspirations and incentive systems, and collective action. Personal agency operates within a broad network of sociostructural influences. In these agentic transactions, people are producers as well as products of social systems. Growing transnational imbeddedness and interdependence of societies are creating new social realities in which global forces increasingly interact with national ones to shape the nature of cultural life.In its brief history, psychology has undergone wrenching paradigm shifts. In these transformations, the theorists and their followers think, argue and act agentically, but their theories about how other people function grant them little, if any, agentic capabilities. It is ironic that a science of human functioning should strip people of the very capabilities that make them unique in their power to shape their environment and their own destiny.The behaviorists gave us the input-output model linked by an obscure black box. In this view, human behavior is conditioned and regulated by environmental stimuli. This line of theorizing was eventually put out of vogue by the advent of the computer, which filled the black box with a lot of self-regulatory capabilities created by inventive thinkers. One brand of behaviorism survived with an even more stringent orthodoxy in the form of the operant model of human behavior. Operant conditioners not only stripped human beings of any agentic capabilities, but imposed strict methodological prohibitions that even natural scientists reject.Scientific advances can be achieved by two types of theories: those that simply seek to identify correlations between observable events without regard to linking mechanisms; and those that specify the mechanisms governing the relations between observable events (Bandura, 1996). Operant analysts declared that the only legitimate scientific approach is one confined to linking observables. In this extreme methodological prescription, they are

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Against eliminative materialism: From folk psychology to Völkersychologie

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Split‐brains and Singular Personhood

Split‐brains and Singular Personhood

Traité de psychologie de la motivation

Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective

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