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(pluralism) views. Both the definition of "physical" and the meaning of physicalism have been debated. Physicalism is closely related to materialism, and...

describing one type of physical event (like C-fiber firings). Type physicalism is contrasted with token identity physicalism, which argues that mental...

assert that such entities exist, while physicalism asserts that they do not. Positing the existence of non-physical entities leads to further questions concerning...

materialism and physicalism: In the twentieth century, physicalism has emerged out of positivism. Physicalism restricts meaningful statements to physical bodies...

sensations are non-physical events. [From3, 4] If color sensations are non-physical events, then physicalism is false. Therefore, physicalism is false. [From5...

metaphysically possible that P is true and Q is not true then physicalism is false. Therefore, physicalism is false. Q can be false in a possible world if any of...

Descartes and the substance monism—namely, physicalism—that is characteristic of modern science. The physicalism propounded by many contemporary scientists...

assume that physicalism is incorrect, since that position is also imperfectly understood. Physicalism claims that states and events are physical, but those...

constituents. Thus, if the hard problem is a real problem then physicalism must be false, and if physicalism is true then the hard problem must not be a real problem...

subject and object, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mind–body problem. Aristotle shared Plato's view...

supervenience-based definition of physicalism to state "Physicalism is true at a possible world W if and only if any world which is a minimal physical duplicate (i.e. is...

Face-ism or facial prominence is the relative proportion of the face compared to the body in the portrayal of men and women. The media tends to give higher...

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contrast to physicalism and idealism. Physicalism claims that all properties, include mental properties, ultimately reduce to, or supervene on, physical properties...

in the terms of physics. This is known as reductive physicalism. However, this type of physicalism in its turn leaves open the question of what we are...

thoroughgoing physicalism. His arguments against physicalism can be found in his two latest monographs: Mind in a Physical World (1998) and Physicalism, or Something...

a thought experiment that is one of the most discussed challenges to physicalism. Frank Cameron Jackson was born on 31 August 1943 in Melbourne, Australia...

behavior. Physicalism, a form of substance monism, states that everything that exists is either physical or depends on that which is physical. The existence...

property dualism are opposed to reductive physicalism. Epiphenomenalism is a doctrine about mental-physical causal relations which holds that one or more...

analytic idealism. He has written several books and papers arguing against physicalism and proposing that consciousness is the fundamental aspect of reality...