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… (More)
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2017
2017
Explorer Prospects for timbre physicalism
Timbre is that property of a sound that distinguishes it other than pitch and loudness, for instance the distinctive sound… (More)
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2014
2014
Quantum Humeanism, or: physicalism without properties
In recent literature, it has become clear that quantum physics does not refute Humeanism: Lewis’s thesis of Humean supervenience… (More)
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2014
2014
Pluralistic Physicalism and the Causal Exclusion Argument
There is a growing consensus among philosophers of science that scientific endeavors of understanding the human mind or the brain… (More)
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2013
2013
Rendering Interventionism and Non-Reductive Physicalism Compatible
In recent years, the debate on the problem of causal exclusio n has seen an ‘interventionist turn’. Numerous non-reductive physic… (More)
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2009
2009
Interventionist Causal Exclusion and Non-reductive Physicalism
The first part of this paper presents an argument showing that the currently most highly acclaimed interventionist theory of… (More)
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2006
2006
Physicalism and strict implication
Suppose P is the conjunction of all truths statable in the austere vocabulary of an ideal physics. Then phsicalists are likely to… (More)
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2005
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… (More)
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2004
2004
On physicalism
There are both historical reasons and reasons grounded in the subject itself to devote to the topic of physicalism a special… (More)
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1999
1999
Physicalism from a Probabilistic Point of View
Physicalism -like other ism s -has meant different things to different people. The main physicalistic thesis I will discuss here… (More)
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1998
1998
Supervenience and Physicalism
Discussion of the supervenience relation in the philosophical literature of recent years has become Byzantine in its intricacy… (More)
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