Synopsis:
- Eliminative materialism
- The mind-body dualism is a false problem that leads to false problems
- Philosophical relativism
- Any theory is inevitably conditioned by the zeitgeist of its era
- Philosophy cannot discover the world
- Philosophy is a genre of literature
- Science cannot independently justify its findings
- Science is a genre of literature
- We cannot know the world
- Pragmatic conception of truth: Truth is a relative concept
- Philosophical relativism
- Facts do not exist independently of the way we describe them with words
- The goal of philosophy and science is not to verify if our propositions agree with reality but to create a vocabulary to express what we think is reality
- Science is just one possible vocabulary, religion is another one: all possible vocabularies are equally valid
- Philosophical relativism
- Metaphysics is nothing but lay religion
- We need to free the minds of metaphysics the same way that the Enlightenment freed the minds of theology
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