 Eliminative materialism (EM), in the form advocated most aggressively by Paul and Patricia Churchland, is the conjunction of two claims. First, our common sense “belief-desire” conception of mental events and processes, our “folk psychology”, is a false and misleading account of the causes of human behavior. Second, like other false conceptual frameworks from both folk theory and the history of science, it will be replaced by, rather than smoothly reduced or incorporated into, a future neuroscience. The Churchlands’ characterized folk psychology as the collection of common homilies invoked (mostly implicitly) to explain human behavior causally. You ask why Marica is not accompanying me this evening. I reply that our grandson needed sitting. You nod sympathetically. You understand my explanation because you share with me a generalization that relates beliefs about taking care of grandchildren, desires to help daughters and to spend time with grandchildren compared to enjoying a night out, and so on. This is just one of a huge collection of homilies about the causes of human behavior that EM claims to be flawed beyond potential revision. Although this example involves only beliefs and desires, folk psychology contains an extensive repertoire of propositional attitudes in its explanatory nexus: hopes, intentions, fears, imaginings, and more. EMists predict that a future, genuinely scientific psychology or neuroscience will eventually eschew all of these, and replace them with incommensurable states and dynamics of neuro-cognition.