Acerca da taxonomia do mental para contextos que requerem neutralidade

Authors

  • Filipe Lazzeri Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2012v16n3p365

Abstract

Ordinary psychological (or mental) predicates, and the phenomena we report to by means of them, can be grouped together into different categories. For instance, it is usual to group together phenomena such as belief and expectancy in a category of ‘propositional attitudes’, whereas sensations, like pain and itch, in a distinct one. Which taxonomy of the mental would be plausible to be adopted in contexts such as those of introductory books to the philosophy of mind, i.e., when we need to set out only from minimal assumptions regarding these predicates and phenomena? This article (1) suggests some desiderata and principles for such a taxonomy; (2) exposes and critically assesses some taxonomies presented in introductory books to the philosophy of mind; and (3) proposes the sketch of an alternative one (for the same kind of context).

Author Biography

Filipe Lazzeri, Universidade de São Paulo

É doutorando em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo e bolsista FAPESP. Possui mestrado e graduação em Filosofia pela Universidade de Brasília.

Published

2012-09-23

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