{"id":28186,"date":"2023-08-11T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T09:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/do-you-think-that-introspection-directly-reveals-the-existence-of-mental-states-like-beliefs-and-desires-if-so-is-this-a-problem-for-eliminative-materialism-why-or-why-not\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T09:14:21","slug":"do-you-think-that-introspection-directly-reveals-the-existence-of-mental-states-like-beliefs-and-desires-if-so-is-this-a-problem-for-eliminative-materialism-why-or-why-not","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/do-you-think-that-introspection-directly-reveals-the-existence-of-mental-states-like-beliefs-and-desires-if-so-is-this-a-problem-for-eliminative-materialism-why-or-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you think that introspection directly reveals the existence of mental states like beliefs and desires? If so, is this a problem for eliminative materialism? Why or why not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 24px; cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 24px; cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Remember that you should always justify your claim with arguments, and\/or with reference to<span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">academic work. Note: you are expected to do additional reading and research beyond the<span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">material discussed in class. Simply rehearsing class discussions is not sufficient. However, do<span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">not use Wikipedia or other unreliable resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 24px; cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 24px; cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Use philosophical writing style having a first and second argument then explaining why the first and second argument would be rejected then a conclusion<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 24px; cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\">Write on the side towards believing introspection does directly reveal mental states like beliefs and desires<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 24px; cursor: auto; font-size: unset;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that you should always justify your claim with arguments, and\/or with reference to&nbsp;academic work. Note: you are expected to do additional reading and research beyond the&nbsp;material discussed in class. Simply rehearsing class discussions is not sufficient. However, do&nbsp;not use Wikipedia or other unreliable resources. Use philosophical writing style having a first and second argument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/28186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/28186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=28186"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=28186"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=28186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}