Physicalist Manifesto - Thoroughly Modern Materialism

Klappentext 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. Two concluding chapters argue in unprecedented 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 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
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2007
• EAN: 9780521038942
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03894-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works