Single Idea 23795

[catalogued under 18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content]

Full Idea

A 'naturalistic' explanation of content excludes primitive mental or normative notions, but allows causation, counterfactual dependence, probabilistic dependence or structural similarity.

Gist of Idea

Naturalistic accounts of content cannot rely on primitive mental or normative notions

Source

Peter Schulte (Mental Content [2023], 4)

Book Reference

Schulte,Peter: 'Mental Content' [CUP 2023], p.19


A Reaction

Apart from causation, what is permissible to naturalists (like me) all sounds rather superficial (and thus not very explanatory). I'm sure we can do better than this. How about using non-primitive mental notions?