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Fizikalism and Existentialism [PDF]
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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8 pages, no figures, extended version of arXiv:2003.00915, draft prepared for the issue of JETP devoted to Dzyaloshinskii ...
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A Critique of the Argument for Panpsychism through Refutation of the Emergence of Consciousness [PDF]
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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Paradox of the duplication of physical information
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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From Murphy’s Christian Physicalism to Lowe’s Dualism
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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The language of physicalism: A conceptual review of physicalist ontology
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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A Critical Study: Physical Closure and the Argument for Naturalism [PDF]
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]
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]
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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Physicalism and the Mind [PDF]
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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