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, 2020 This chapter considers potential applications of grounding to the formulation of physicalism. I begin with an overview of competing conceptions of the physical and of physicalism.
Bryant, Amanda
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The language of physicalism: A conceptual review of physicalist ontology
Sineza, 2022 In this paper, the author explores the development and influence of the language of physicalism on the understanding of the mind and body problem.
Igor Janković
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Paradox of the duplication of physical information
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 A thought experiment demonstrates that physicalism about consciousness entails a paradoxical duplication of physical information. Moreover, objective existence acquires the status of a physical property.
Maxim Ryabkov
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A Critical Study: Physical Closure and the Argument for Naturalism [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021 Great naturalist philosophers like David Armstrong, David Papineau, Jeagwon Kim, and others have argued that the best arguments for naturalism are based on Physical Causal Closure (in brief P.C). P.C that is a premise in these arguments implies that only
Nima Narimani
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Conservation of Energy is Relevant to Physicalism [PDF]
, 2007 I argue against Barbara Montero's claim that Conservation of Energy has nothing to do with physicalism. I reject her reconstruction of the argument for physicalism from CoE, and offer an alternative reconstruction that better captures the intuitions of ...
Koksvik, Ole
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Physicalism, conceptual analysis, and acts of faith [PDF]
, 2008 Frank Jackson and the author each take the other to hold a position in philosophy of mind that it is extremely difficult to sustain. This chapter tries to say something about how that can be.
Hornsby, Jennifer
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Crítica, 2018 El presente trabajo trata de esclarecer el sentido en que puede considerarse que Wittgenstein es un fisicalista, es decir, un creyente en la tesis de que el discurso científico con significado cognitivo consiste, en ultima instancia, en proposiciones ...
Rudolf Haller
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Where Does the Knowledge Argument Go Wrong?
Análisis Filosófico, 2023 In his well-known Knowledge Argument (KA) Frank Jackson attempted to show that physicalism is false by offering a case that allegedly showed that a complete physicalist description of the world leaves something crucial out, namely the phenomenal ...
Fernando Rudy Hiller
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Illusionism on Mind Problem [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Nowadays, theories of the philosophy of mind, are divided into illusionist and non-illusionist. In relation to the Mind Problem (MP), Illusionism of Soul (IS) considers soul and all of the unphysical-mental events (like immaterial personal identity, non ...
Siamak Abdollahi, Mansour Nasiri
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Physicalism and the Mind [PDF]
, 2014 This book addresses a tightly knit cluster of questions in the philosophy of mind. There is the question: Are mental properties identical with physical properties?
Francescotti, Robert
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