文档介绍：Epistemology in the Age of Neuroscience
Patricia Smith Churchland
The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 84, No. 10, Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting American
Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (Oct., 1987), 544-553.
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projectivism by suggesting that values have the same real, ., non-
subjective, status that other secondary qualities have, viz., a power to
produce certain effects in us. The same maneuver might be extended
to the unity problem. Projectivism seems to be a kind of eliminati-
vism. But a secondary-quality view, as McDowell points out, pre-
serves a legtimate ontological niche for the entities in question,
indeed, a not-purely-subjective ontological niche. For our topic, it
would say that the property of entitivity is the ("objective") property
of having the power to produce certain effects in human beings. As
such, entit