ABSTRACT
Eliminative materialism has enjoyed a resurgence recently in the work of Paul Churchland (for example, 1979, 1984, this volume, pp. 42–62) who argues for that view in the course of defending both a unified model of intertheoretic relations and the minimalist metaphysics of a scientific realist. His arguments, no doubt, offer solace to many scientifically minded philosophers and philosophically minded scientists who are generally sympathetic to the eliminativist program but who have been unwilling to abide the recent antirealism of its first generation defenders, Richard Rorty and Paul Feyerabend.
