ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores some of the places where it is a good idea to be an eliminativist. These include artefacts (tables, chairs), natural ordinary macroscopic objects (trees, mountains, human bodies), the Self (the person, the subject), and aesthetic objects (musical works, photographs). The book also explores eliminativism as a method. Indeed, as the first-level discussions of different eliminativist claims will show, there is a common eliminativist strategy that can be applied to various cases. The book shows that in many important places eliminativism works. It discusses the no-Self view. The book is concerned with social and aesthetic objects. Eliminativism is an incredibly useful tool for solving metaphysical problems. In short, eliminativism works, it nicely solves or avoids many problems that alternative views have — and that's the best reason to endorse it.
