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Naturalism or Ontological Significance? Physicalism and Fundamental Mentality: a historical approach [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
Most physicalists believe that physicalism is a thesis that denies the existence of fundamental mentality either as a substance or as a property. Therefore, since most physicalists also endorse a posteriori physicalism, according to them, if the future ...
Hamed Bikaraan-Behesht
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A Novel Reading of Thomas Nagel’s “Challenge” to Physicalism [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
In passing remarks, some commentators have noted that for Nagel, physicalism is true. It has even been argued that Nagel seeks to find the best path to follow to achieve future physicalism. I advance these observations by adding that for Nagel, we should
Serdal Tümkaya
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A Dilemma about the Mental [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
Physicalism demands an explication of what it means for something to be physical. But the most popular way of providing one—viz., characterizing the physical in terms of the postulates of a scientifically derived physical theory—is met with serious ...
Guy Dove, Andreas Elpidorou
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NON-REDUCTIVE PHYSICALISM FOR AGI [PDF]

Filozofia i Nauka, 2022
Creature consciousness provides a physicalist account of the first-person awareness (contra Rosenthal). I argue that non-reductive consciousness is not about phenomenal qualia (Nagel’s what it is like to feel like something else); it is about the stream ...
Piotr (Peter) Bołtuć
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The colored-brain thesis

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
The “colored-brain thesis”, or strong qualitative physicalism, is discussed from historical and philosophical perspectives. This thesis was proposed by Thomas Case (1888), in a non-materialistic context, and is close to views explored by H. H.
Osvaldo Pessoa Jr.
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ON UNDERSTANDING PHYSICALISM* [PDF]

Kriterion, 2018
This paper aims at exposing a strategy to organize the debate around physicalism. Our starting point (following Stoljar 2010) is the pre-philosophical notion of physicalism, which is typically formulated in the form of slogans.
Julia Telles de Menezes
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Physicalism and moral responsibility: presentation of derivative consequence argument [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020
In this paper, the author introduces the derivative consequence argument, which aims to demonstrate that moral responsibility is impossible in the world where physicalism and the strong realism about the laws of nature are both true.
B. V. Faul
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Fizikalism and Existentialism [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2019
This article is about the dispute between existentialism and physicalism concerning the in/authenticity of the human being's thought and freedom. It deals with the impossibility of reducing human thought, practice, choice, and decision to their physical,
Bijan Abdolkarimi
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A Critique of the Argument for Panpsychism through Refutation of the Emergence of Consciousness [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022
Panpsychism, as opposed to physicalism and dualism, offers a third way to explain consciousness. According to panpsychism, some fundamental physical entities have conscious states.
MohammadJavad Elahieasl, Mahdi Zakeri
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From Murphy’s Christian Physicalism to Lowe’s Dualism

TheoLogica, 2021
Nancey Murphy argues that God created us as physical beings without immortal souls. She supports this Christian physicalism by arguing that neuroscience can better explain minds in terms of physical information processing than dualists can in problematic
Mostyn Jones, Eric LaRock
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