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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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Considering the “Property-Based” of the Physical in the Definition of Physicalism according to the Latest View of Islamic Philosophers [PDF]
تاریخ فلسفه اسلامی, 2023 Various viewpoints have been expressed in favor and against physicalism; But the requirement for accurate assessment of physicalism is to have a correct understanding of physicalism. In this article, apart from criticizing physicalism, we want to reach a
Mohammad Hassan Fatemi neia
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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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Physical distancing ≠ physical inactivity [PDF]
Translational Behavioral Medicine, 2021 Abstract During this time of global health crisis, physical distancing, along with mask wearing, has emerged as the sine qua non social practice to protect ourselves and others from COVID-19. But as physical distancing ensues and all eyes remain fixed on the novel coronavirus, another, albeit careworn, pandemic rages on.
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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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