概念革命能否解决心身问题?——兼评柯林·麦金的先验自然主义

Can Conceptual Revolution Solve the Mind-Body Problem?——Commenting on Colin McGinn's Transcendental Naturalism

当代心灵哲学取得了丰硕成果,但也遇到了"危机"。麦金认为,危机源于我们当前的概念图式不适于解决心身问题,摆脱危机要发动概念革命,建立新的实在观、意识观和空间观,但这超越了人类的能力。麦金的概念革命思想堪称心灵哲学中的"哥白尼式革命",其有关人类概念图式中蕴含"空间化隐喻"的主张是发人深省的,但他只是重新定位了而非解决了心身问题,他在概念革命上的悲观立场也缺乏可靠依据。另外,先验自然主义的预设要么是悬而未决的,要么是成问题的。

While great achievements have been made in contemporary mind of philosophy, we are still facing a crisis. According to Colin McGinn, the crisis is rooted in our conceptual scheme＇s inability to solve the mind-body problem, and we should make a conceptual revolution and come up with a new conception of reality, consciousness, and space to get out of the crisis, but McGinn insists that it is a task beyond our faculties. McGinn＇s idea of conceptual revolution could be called Copernican revolution in philosophy of mind, and his idea of spatializing metaphors embeded in our conceptual framework is instructive, but McGinn only relocates the mind-body problem instead of resloving it. Moreover, McGinn＇s pessimism on conceptual revolution cann＇t be provided reliable evidence ,and his presuppositions of transcendental naturalism are either still pending or problematic.