A Structuralist Approach to the Philosophy of Mind
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Abstract
The purpose of this article is to relate the notion of theory in the philosophy of science, especially from metatheoretical structuralism, with some contemporary aspects of the philosophy of mind, such as the problem of consciousness. We must warn that in this work we do not propose to reconstruct a theory of the mental, not as the supporters of metatheoretical structuralism would like, but we try to combine an epistemological proposal to solve an ontological problem: the nature of mental states, based on a tool whit a high formal component, such as meta-scientific structuralism. Thus, if we discard for a moment the reconstructionist approach of structuralism, it is possible to take the conceptual and formal components to, in the structural language itself, establish theoretical relationships between a proposal of the resource of the philosophy of science with the philosophy of mind. Perhaps this is not a conclusion that a structuralist would widely value, since we do not reconstruct any theory, but we consider that this model-theoretical current has other associated virtues that could be useful to adequately understand a theory; one of these would be, then, conceptual analysis to the extent that some elements of the philosophy of mind, in this case, can be subsumed in structural language.
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