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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… Expand
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
On characterizing the physical
AbstractHow should physical entities be characterized? Physicalists, who have most to do with the notion, usually characterize… Expand
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Supervenience-based Formulations of Physicalism*
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… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Words in the mind: An introduction to the mental lexicon
  • D. 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… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Arguments for Philosophical Realism in Library and Information Science
The basic realist claim is that a mind-independent reality exists. It should be common sense knowledge to accept this claim, just… Expand
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Is There a Fundamental Level
1. Talk about ‘‘the fundamental level of reality’’ pervades contemporary metaphysics. The fundamentalist starts with (a) a… Expand
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Thinking about Consciousness
Preface Introduction 1. The Case for Materialism 2. Conceptual Dualism 3. The Impossibility of Zombies 4. Phenomenal Concepts 5… Expand
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The Rise of Physicalism
Article (also printed in Wolff, J. & Stone, M. (eds.), "Proper Ambition of Science" (2000)) 
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
A Sociocognitive Analysis of Substance Abuse: An Agentic Perspective
This article presents a social-cognitive theory of substance abuse. The exercise of self-regulatory agency plays a central role… Expand
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Is human information processing conscious
Investigations of the function of consciousness in human information processing have focused mainly on two questions: (1) where… Expand
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Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Are Dreams Experiences
T HE "received view" of dreams is that they are uperiences that occur duringshtP, experiences which we can often recall upon… Expand
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