"Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes" (paper)

"Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes" argues that common-sense mental concepts like beliefs and desires—called propositional attitudes—are outdated and scientifically unsupported. The paper suggests that as neuroscience progresses, these mental states may be replaced by direct physical explanations of brain activity. In essence, it challenges the idea that human thoughts and feelings are best understood as familiar mental entities, proposing instead that our current vocabulary may be mistaken and will eventually be eliminated in favor of more accurate scientific descriptions.