单一实在多样变体论——简析柯林·麦金的心灵观

Multiple Variants of a Single Reality-ism——Commenting on Colin Mc Ginn's View of Mind

心灵或意识有无广延性或空间性以及如何将心灵或意识纳入自然秩序的问题,是心灵哲学家们争论已久的问题。麦金认为,心灵哲学研究不能取得实质性进展的根源,在于我们既定的认知局限性和我们的概念框架存在根本的缺陷。因此,推动对心灵的认识,需要建立新的物质概念和心灵概念,而这要求我们重新审视物质和空间的本质属性及其相互关系,建立物质世界一体多样的新图景。

Philosophers of mind have long debated on whether mind or consciousness has extension or space, and how to put consciousness or mind into nature order. Colin McGinn holds that the reasons why philosophy of mind can not make substantial progress are our established cognitive closure and the defects in our conceptual framework. So if we want to prorate research of consciousness, we must bring forward new concepts of matter and mind, which requirs us to re-examine the basic properties of matter and space, and their interrelation, and to establish a new picture of multiple vari- ants of a single reality.