ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a very brief introduction to eliminative materialism, followed by an example. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. To be an eliminativist about some particular subject matter is to eliminate that subject matter; to say that the putative subject matter is not real. And, say the eliminativist materialists, we should eliminate the category of the mental: there are no thoughts, there are no feelings. The thought experiments are presents a case where Joey engages in an inductive argument, though certainly fallible, the kinds of argument that we often find credible. That I am in pain, seems to not be something that we can doubt. But it should be noted that things here are complex. The questions are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about these problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars.
