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Physicalism and its Discontents

By Carl Gillett , Barry Loewer

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
9780511570797, 0521801753, 0521042127, 0511570791, 9780521042123, 9780521801751
LCC
B825 .P49 2001
Open Library ID
OL6795307M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
831 kB (850514 bytes)
Pages
380\379
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Physicalism is the philosophical view that everything in the space-time world is ultimately physical. This collection of new essays offers a series of "state-of-the-art" perspectives on this important doctrine and brings new 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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