Physicalism and its Discontents
- Editors:
- Carl Gillett, Illinois Wesleyan University
- Barry Loewer, Rutgers University, New Jersey
- Date Published: October 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521042123
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Physicalism, a topic that has been central to modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics, is the philosophical view that everything in the space-time world is ultimately physical. The physicalist will claim that all facts about the mind and the mental are physical facts and deny the existence of mental events and state insofar as these are thought of as independent of physical things, events and states. This collection of essays, first published in 2001, offers a series of perspectives on this important doctrine and brings depth and breadth to the philosophical debate. A group of distinguished philosophers, comprising both physicalists and their critics, consider a wide range of issues including the historical genesis and present justification of physicalism, its metaphysical presuppositions and methodological role, its implications for mental causation, and the account it provides of consciousness.
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- These essays are from some leading philosophers in the debate over physicalism
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- Date Published: October 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521042123
- length: 380 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.572kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
Part I. Physicalism:
1. The rise of physicalism David Papineau
2. From physics to physicalism Barry Loewer
3. Sufficiency claims and physicalism: a formulation D. Gene Witmer
4. Realization and mental causation Sydney Shoemaker
5. Physicalism and psychology: a plea for a substantive philosophy of mind Georges Rey
6. Davidson and non-reductive materialism: a tale of two cultures Howard Robinson
7. Substance physicalism Noa Latham
8. Possibility: physical and metaphysical Stephen Leeds
Part II. Physicalist Discontents:
9. The roots of reductionism Scott Sturgeon
10. The significance of emergence Tim Crane
11. The methodological role of physicalism: a minimal scepticism Carl Gillett
12. Physicalism, empiricism and positivism Gary Gates
Part III. Physicalism and Consciousness: A Continuing Dialectic
Section 1. Arguments for Pessimism:
13. Mental causation and consciousness: the two mind-body problems for the physicalist Jaegwon Kim
14. How not to solve the mind-body problem Colin McGinn
15. Deconstructing new wave materialism Terence Horgan and John Tienson
Section 2. Optimistic Rejoinders:
16. In defense of new wave materialism: a response to Horgan and Tienson Brian P. McLaughlin
17. Physicalism unfalsified: Chalmer's inconclusive conceivability argument Andrew Melnyk
References
Index.
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