Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia
Linguistics & Philosophy IUSS Center
IUSS Philosophy Seminars
The Mark of the Mental (MOM) Project
“THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND WORRY:
A MECHANISTIC-EXPLANATORY STRATEGY ”
June 9th 2021, 15.00 – 17.00
Speaker:
- Beate Krickel – TU Berlin
Abstract
Recent findings in different areas of psychology and cognitive science have brought the discussion of the unconscious mind back to center stage. However, the unconscious mind worry remains: What renders unconscious phenomena mental? In this talk, I will propose a new strategy for answering this question. This strategy rests on the idea that categorizing unconscious phenomena as “mental” should come out as scientifically useful relative to the explanatory goals of unconscious mind research. I will argue that this is the case if by categorizing an unconscious phenomenon as “mental” one picks out explanatorily relevant similarities between that phenomenon and a corresponding paradigmatically mental phenomenon, i.e., a conscious one. Explanatory relevance is spelled out in terms of the mechanistic norms of scientific explanation
Use the following link to attend:
https://iusspavia.zoom.us/j/8700221458
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