塞拉斯的原始功能主义心智观解析

An Interpretation of Sellars’Proto-functionalist Philosophy of Mind

当代心智哲学的主流理论是基于一元论立场的功能主义,但这种功能主义心智观并没有直面意向性和感受特质。塞拉斯的原始功能主义心智观作为功能主义的最早形态,立足于他的哲学二元论,接受心智作为实体存在的承诺,承认心智的概念,把心智看作理论实体,认为心智就是语言的实体化,两者是属性关系。

Functionalism,as the mainstream theory of the contemporary philosophy of mind,does not confront such core issues as intentionality and qualia in the study of the mind.Sellars’proto-functionalism differs from later forms of functionalism by its property dualism.Sellars accepts the belief that mind is a theoretical entity and argues that mind should be seen as a sort of hypostatization of language.