Table of Contents

• 1    Explaining Eliminativism    1
  • I    Eliminativism: The Basic Idea    2
  • II    Eliminativism: Not as Bad as you might Think    8
  • III    The Linguistic Charge of Contradiction    12
  • IV    The Metaphysical Charge of Contradiction    20
• 2    Considerations in Favour of Eliminativism    30
  • I    The Water in the Pool    30
  • II    The Sorites Game    32
  • III    The Statue and the Lump    38
  • IV    Brains and Thinkers    47
• 3    Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism    56
  • I    The Causal Principle    57
  • II    Atomic Causation    59
  • III    Causal Overdetermination    66
  • IV    The Moral of the Overdetermination Argument    79
• 4    Surviving Eliminativism    85
  • I    Step One    89
  • II    Conscious Mental Properties and Premiss (1a)    93
  • III    Objections to the Defence of Premiss (1a)    96
  • IV    Step One Again    104
  • V    Step Two    107
  • VI    On What Composite Objects Exist    114
• 5    Considerations in Favour of Eliminating Us?    118
  • I    Persons and the Water in the Pool    119
  • II    Persons and the Sorites Game    124
  • III    Statues, Lumps, and Persons    130
  • IV    Brains, Thinkers, and Persons    135
• 6    Mental Causation and Free Will    138
  • I    The Exclusion Argument(s)    138
  • II    Causal Overdetermination Again    146
  • III    The ‘Bottom-Up’ Threat to Free Will    155
• 7    Belief and Practice    162
  • I    False Folk Beliefs    162
  • II    False Folk Beliefs are Nearly as Good as True: Justification    171
  • III    False Folk Beliefs are Nearly as Good as True: Practice    175
  • IV    And Yet I Often Say ‘There are statues’    186
  • References    191
  • Index    201