A physicalist manifesto: thoroughly modern materialism
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Main Author: Melnyk, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press 2003
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Realization Physicalism; 2 But Why Not Supervenience?; 3 Realizationism and Rdctnsm; 4 Causation and Explanation in a Realizationist World; 5 The Evidence against Realization Physicalism; 6 The Evidence for Realization Physicalism; References; Index
A Physicalist Manifesto is the fullest treatment yet 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 327 pages)
ISBN:0511062656
0511071116
0521827116
9780511062650
9780511071119

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