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Physicalism
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Non-reductive physicalism
, Identity thesis
, Token identity theory
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In philosophy, physicalism is the ontological thesis that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical, or that…
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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
The Special Science Dilemma and How Culture Solves It
Marion Godman
2015
Corpus ID: 4827341
I argue that there is a tension between the claim that at least some kinds in the special sciences are multiply realized and the…
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Supervenience-based Formulations of Physicalism*
Jessica M. Wilson
2005
Corpus ID: 20940548
Filling in the schema requires specifying what it is for an entity to be physical, and what it is for an entity to be ‘‘nothing…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Words in the mind: An introduction to the mental lexicon
Daniel B. Jones
Machine Translation
2004
Corpus ID: 6551835
The author's main objective is made clear at an early stage: "The overall aim of this book is to build a 'model' of the mental…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Arguments for Philosophical Realism in Library and Information Science
Birger Hjørland
Library Trends
2004
Corpus ID: 8412113
The basic realist claim is that a mind-independent reality exists. It should be common sense knowledge to accept this claim, just…
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Is There a Fundamental Level
J. Schaffer
2003
Corpus ID: 15016701
1. Talk about ‘‘the fundamental level of reality’’ pervades contemporary metaphysics. The fundamentalist starts with (a) a…
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
The Intentional Structure of Consciousness
T. Crane
2003
Corpus ID: 30299348
This paper develops in more detail the view proposed in ‘Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental’. I challenge the widely…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Thinking about Consciousness
D. Papineau
2002
Corpus ID: 170620960
Preface Introduction 1. The Case for Materialism 2. Conceptual Dualism 3. The Impossibility of Zombies 4. Phenomenal Concepts 5…
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The Rise of Physicalism
D. Papineau
2001
Corpus ID: 170956659
Article (also printed in Wolff, J. & Stone, M. (eds.), "Proper Ambition of Science" (2000))
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
A Sociocognitive Analysis of Substance Abuse: An Agentic Perspective
A. Bandura
1999
Corpus ID: 14083384
This article presents a social-cognitive theory of substance abuse. The exercise of self-regulatory agency plays a central role…
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Review
1991
Review
1991
Is human information processing conscious?
M. Velmans
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
1991
Corpus ID: 526378
Abstract Investigations of the function of consciousness in human information processing have focused mainly on two questions: (1…
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