On 16 Mar 2015, at 19:40, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Am 16.03.2015 um 17:13 schrieb Bruno Marchal:
On 15 Mar 2015, at 20:37, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1523413.ece
An interesting paper that reviews the history on consciousness in
philosophy in order to display that
"Twenty years ago, however, an instant myth was born: a myth about
a dramatic resurgence of interest in the topic of consciousness in
philosophy, in the mid-1990s, after long neglect."
I am not sure that it was a myth. I have wittnessed it, as the
subject of consciousness was an ultra-taboo subject, even for most
psychologist. Scientist were, more or less consciously, influence by
positivisme. There are just been an understanding that positivism and
instrumentalistm where incoherent.
If to speak about psychology or neuroscience, then you are write.
But this is a myth when we speak about philosophy. A quote is below.
"In the case of psychology the story of resurgence has some truth.
There are doubts about its timing. The distinguished psychologist of
memory Endel Tulving places it in the 1980s. “Consciousness has
recently again been declared to be the central problem of
psychology”, he wrote in 1985, citing a number of other authors. The
great dam of behaviouristic psychology was cracking and spouting. It
was bursting. Even so, there was a further wave of liberation in
psychology in the 1990s. Discussion of consciousness regained full
respectability after seventy years of marginalization, although
there were of course (and still are) a few holdouts.
In the case of philosophy, however, the story of resurgence is
simply a myth.
It depends of the university. In mine, philosophy of mind *is* still
forbidden, or very badly seen, to the philosophers (in the french
part, unlike the flemish part, actually). It has always been like
that. They try to change this, and there are some tiny progress, but
it concerns more the psychologists than the philosophers.
There was a small but fashionable group of philosophers of mind who
in the 1970s and 80s focused particularly on questions about belief
and “intentionality”, and had relatively little to say about
consciousness. Their intensely parochial outlook may be one of the
origins of the myth. But the problem of consciousness, the “hard
problem”, remained central throughout those years. It never shifted
from the heart of the discipline taken as a whole."
Among philosophers of mind, where it can be done.
Bruno
Evgeny
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