How To Use physicalism In A Sentence
- According to Wikipedia materialism is a form of physicalism. 2009 January - Telic Thoughts
- That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism.
- While the zombie argument raises a problem for physicalism's metaphysical claims about the relations between mind and body, the explanatory gap argument raises a problem for physicalism's understanding of consciousness.
- Amongst mainstream philosophers, discontent with physicalism led to a modest revival of property dualism in the last decade of the twentieth century.
- That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism.
- The most common opposing view has been materialism or physicalism, a philosophical position maintaining that everything, including mind, is essentially physical.
- The problem seems to be that the supervenience definition of physicalism in effect presupposes something like Hume's dictum, in that it uses failure of necessitation as a test for distinctness. Physicalism
- Use of the zombie idea against physicalism also raises more general questions about relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Zombies
- Supervenience physicalism, as we have been understanding it, is a contingent thesis that is consistent with the possibility (if not the actuality) of disembodiment. Physicalism
- Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Zombies
