Physicalist Manifesto - Thoroughly Modern Materialism

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A Physicalist Manifesto is a full treatment of the comprehensive physicalist view that! in some important sense! everything is physical. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Melnyk, Andrew (University of Missouri Melnyk, Melnyk Andrew
• Assisted by: Jonathan Dancy (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2003
• EAN: 9780521827119
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82711-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism