That doesn't lead to 'physicalism is triumphant' but 'all bets are off'. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
Edit materialism aka physicalism aka postmodernism aka monism. From Wordnik.com. [The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Simply Incorrect Embryology (Chapter 3) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Materialism aka physicalism aka postmodernism aka monism. From Wordnik.com. [The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Simply Incorrect Embryology (Chapter 3) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Intuitively it would seem that physicalism is false at W. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Supervenience physicalism does not on its own entail this. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
This suggests the following account of what physicalism is. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
But supervenience physicalism does rule out this possibility. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
If supervenience physicalism is true, it will then be true that. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
And that seems to be something that physicalism should not allow. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
We saw earlier that if physicalism is true then (5) is true, where. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
However, if (3) is a necessary truth, how can physicalism be contingent?. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Reflectance physicalism identifies each hue with a class of reflectances. From Wordnik.com. [Auditory Perception] Reference
“Materialism without reductionism: What physicalism does not entail.”. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
Having considered token physicalism, we can now turn to type physicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Periodicity physicalism identifies each pitch with a fundamental frequency. From Wordnik.com. [Auditory Perception] Reference
Lewis's example gives us one way to introduce the basic idea of physicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Thus, a lot of philosophy of mind is devoted to a discussion of physicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Representatives of these ideologies oppose the “reductionism” of physicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
But this is a question of further inquiry that is irrelevant to physicalism itself. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
If so, then objective physicalism about at least some sensible qualities might succeed. From Wordnik.com. [Auditory Perception] Reference
Perhaps no strong global supervenience thesis will state a sufficient condition for physicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
On this interpretation, emergentism seems very similar to a posteriori physicalism (Byrne 1993). From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Token physicalism is the view that every particular thing in the world is a physical particular. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
On this view, rather than refuting physicalism, the existence of explanatory gaps may confirm it. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
We saw earlier that physicalism is intended as a very general claim about the nature of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
But why should one assume that this last piece of knowledge should be a consequence of physicalism?. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
A weak global supervenience characterization of physicalism would allow much more mental property swapping. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
And in any case, just like the inverted spectrum argument against behaviorism, functionalism and physicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Inverted Qualia] Reference
Most other metaphysical theories of consciousness are versions of physicalism of one familiar sort or another. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
Unfortunately, none of these three definitions seems to succeed in stating a sufficient condition for physicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
If physicalism is construed along the lines suggested in (1), then we have an answer to the completeness question. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Nonreductive physicalism has been challenged for its alleged failure to “pay its physicalist dues” in reductive coin. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
Thus those who wish to use a strong in principle gap claim to refute physicalism must find independent grounds to support it. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
The available responses largely parallel the standard mind-body options including the main versions of dualism and physicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
It's a world view that typically is conceived upon a metaphysical materialsim - a physicalism - very often a determinism as well. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
On the other hand some neodualists have tried to use the existence of the gap to refute physicalism (Foster 1996, Chalmers 1996). From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
Second, property dualism as described earlier is incompatible with physicalism, yet Davidson himself appears to be a physicalist. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Causation] Reference
In order to solve the epiphenomenal ectoplasm problem, we need to adjust (1) so that it does not have the truth of physicalism ruling out. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Moreover, it would be a substantive condition of adequacy on any formulation of physicalism that it entail the global supervenience thesis. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
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