Physicalism is the philosophical view that everything in the space-time world is ultimately physical. This collection of new essays offers a series of "state-of-the-art" perspectives on this important doctrine and brings new depth and breadth to the philosophical debate. A group of distinguished philosophers, comprising both physicalists and their critics, consider a wide range of issues including the historical genesis and present justification of physicalism, its metaphysical presuppositions and methodological role, its implications for mental causation, and the account it provides of consciousness.
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This collection of new essays offers a series of "state-of-the-art" perspectives on the important doctrine of physicalism and brings new depth and breadth to the philosophical debate. A group of distinguished philosophers, comprising both physicalists and their critics, consider a wide range of issues including the historical genesis and present justification of physicalism, its metaphysical presuppositions and methodological role, its implications for mental causation, and the account it provides of consciousness.
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In this chapter I want to discuss the way in which physical science has come to claim a particular kind of hegemony over other subjects in the second half of this century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
physicalist criterion, wave materialists, scientific theory appraisal, minimally complete description, sui generis mental forces, minimal appraisal, substance dualistic, token functionalism, physicalist criteria, realizer properties, new wave materialism, fundamental conservative forces, property physicalism, realizer property, substance physicalism, zombie duplicate, minimal physical duplicate, physical causal closure, phenomenal concepts, conceivability arguments, philosophical physicalism, nonphysical facts, nonphysical stuff, ontological physicalism, conditional powers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third Wheel Argument, Methodological Physicalists, Barry Loewer, David Lewis, David Chalmers, Jaegwon Kim, Thinking Causes, Subset Suggestion, Thomas Nagel, Type Identity Thesis, Donald Davidson, Frank Jackson, Vienna Circle, Brian Loar, Different Stages of Physicalism, George Bealer, Jeffrey Poland, Jerry Fodor, Methodological Physicalism, Ned Block, Saul Kripke, Basil Blackwell, Christopher Hill, Stephen Yablo, Tarski's Theory of Truth New!
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In this chapter I want to discuss the way in which physical science has come to claim a particular kind of hegemony over other subjects in the second half of this century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
physicalist criterion, wave materialists, scientific theory appraisal, minimally complete description, sui generis mental forces, minimal appraisal, substance dualistic, token functionalism, physicalist criteria, realizer properties, new wave materialism, fundamental conservative forces, property physicalism, realizer property, substance physicalism, zombie duplicate, minimal physical duplicate, physical causal closure, phenomenal concepts, conceivability arguments, philosophical physicalism, nonphysical facts, nonphysical stuff, ontological physicalism, conditional powers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third Wheel Argument, Methodological Physicalists, Barry Loewer, David Lewis, David Chalmers, Jaegwon Kim, Thinking Causes, Subset Suggestion, Thomas Nagel, Type Identity Thesis, Donald Davidson, Frank Jackson, Vienna Circle, Brian Loar, Different Stages of Physicalism, George Bealer, Jeffrey Poland, Jerry Fodor, Methodological Physicalism, Ned Block, Saul Kripke, Basil Blackwell, Christopher Hill, Stephen Yablo, Tarski's Theory of Truth New!
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- Philosophical Perspectives, 5: Philosophy of Religion by James E. Tomberlin on 5 pages
- Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke on page 179, page 305, and Back Matter
- Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by John Heil in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 264, and Back Matter
- Chomsky and His Critics (Philosophers and their Critics) by Louise M. Antony in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Physicalism and Mental Causation by Heinz-Dieter Heckmann Fre on 6 pages
- Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy) by Jaegwon Kim on 6 pages
- Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action by Sven Walter on 5 pages
- Philosophical Issues, Philosophy of Mind (Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous) by Ernest Sosa on page 161, page 203, and page 278
- Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 2 by Dean Zimmerman on page 76, and page 77
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