A physicalist manifesto : thoroughly modern materialism
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A physicalist manifesto : thoroughly modern materialism
（Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa）
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index
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Description
A Physicalist Manifesto is a full treatment of the comprehensive physicalist view that, in some important sense, everything is physical. Andrew Melnyk argues that the view is best formulated by appeal to a carefully worked-out notion of realization, rather than supervenience; that, so formulated, physicalism must be importantly reductionist; that it need not repudiate causal and explanatory claims framed in non-physical language; and that it has the a posteriori epistemic status of a broad-scope scientific hypothesis. Two concluding chapters argue in detail that contemporary science provides no significant empirical evidence against physicalism and some considerable evidence for it. Written in a brisk, candid and exceptionally clear style, this 2003 book should appeal to professionals and students in philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of science.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Realization physicalism
- 2. But why not supervenience?
- 3. Realizationism and r*d*ct**n*sm
- 4. Causation and explanation in a realizationist world
- 5. The evidence against realization physicalism
- 6. The evidence for realization physicalism
- References
- Index.
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