Organon F
Volume 29, February 2022, Issue 1, Pages 109–127
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
Factualism and Anti-descriptivism: A Challenge to the Materialist Criterion of Fundamentality
Víctor Fernández Castro
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29105
Inspired by the work of Sellars, Cumpa (2014, 2018) and Buonomo (2021) have argued that we can evaluate our metaphysical proposals on fundamental categories in terms of their capacity for reconciling the scientific and the manifest image of the world. This criterion of fundamentality would allow us to settle the question of which categories among those proposed in the debate—e.g., substance, structure or facts—have a better explanatory value. The aim of this essay is to argue against a central assumption of the criterion: semantic descriptivism. Specifically, I aim at showing that the criterion rests on the idea that the manifest picture is mostly a description of the world, and thus, it commits us with certain realism. Instead, I argue that at least some of the vocabulary we use to construct our manifest picture of the world, mental vocabulary, is evaluative rather than descriptive and thus creates problems in reconciling the manifest picture with scientific psychology and neurosciences. I conclude with some remarks on alternatives that could provide a way out of the fundamentality criterion.
Descriptivism; factualism; fundamental categories; mental vocabulary.
Author
Víctor Fernández Castro
Affiliation
Universidad de Granada
Adress
FiloLab-UGR, Universidad de Granada, 18011 Granada, Spain
Received
11 February 2020
Revised
27 January 2021
Accepted
3 June 2021
Published online
24 September 2021
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Fernández Castro, V. (2022). Partial Compatibilism: Free Will in the Light of Moral Experience. Organon F, 29(1), 109–127. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29105
Chicago
Fernández Castro, Victor. 2022. "Partial Compatibilism: Free Will in the Light of Moral Experience." Organon F 29 (1): 109–127. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29105
Harvard
Fernández Castro, V. (2022). Partial Compatibilism: Free Will in the Light of Moral Experience. Organon F, 29(1), pp. 109–127. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29105
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