Eliminativism and the Challenge from Folk Belief*

Abstract

I regret to say that all too many professors of philosophy consider it their duty to be sycophants of common sense, and thus, doubtless unintentionally, to bow down in homage before the savage superstitions of cannibals. Bertrand Russell 1Revisionists standardly delude themselves into thinking that they can plausibly explain why people make the mistakes they allege.It is closer to the truth to say that such mistakes would require some highly selective and seemingly arbitrary forms of genetically or culturally transmitted idiocy.

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