Physicalism

Known as: Non-reductive physicalism, Identity thesis, Token identity theory

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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2013

Part I: Introduction 1.Introduction Part II: Biological Psychology 2. Extinction Phenomena: A Biologic Perspective on How and Why…

2008

The relationship between Marxism and ecology has been sullied by Martinez-Alier's influential interpretation of Engels's reaction…

2007

This paper argues that the form of explanation at issue in the hard problem of consciousness is scientifically irrelevant…

2003

Consciousness, Color, and Content is a significant contribution to our understanding of consciousness, among other things. I have…

2002

In a recent paper, Steven Horst argued that if traditional physicalist accounts of consciousness cannot explain why there are…

1997

No one denies that Tarski made a major contribution to one particular problem about truth, namely, the resolution of the semantic…

1994

L'A. developpe trois arguments en faveur d'une certaine branche du physicalisme qu'il qualifie de physicalisme realisation…

1984

'In a world of "scientific" objects, objects characterizable by the vocabulary of physics alone, in a world governed by what we…

1984

1982

The subject of this paper is the analytic-synthetic distinction and its relation to the indeterminacy of translation. In…