Eliminative materialism and Cartesian mental ontology
According to eliminative materialism, the Cartesian mental ontology is in fact “theoretical.”
Explain the general eliminativist idea of (all) ontology being a matter of theory – what it means (this may be best explained through some of the eliminativists’ general reasons for espousing this view)
– explain how their theoretical view differs from and/or refutes the general idea of a Cartesian mental ontology
(4). Finally, explain whether the eliminativists’ approach to mental ontology relates critically also to one of the other mind-body theories that we have studied and why