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A physicalist manifesto : thoroughly modern materialism /
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, ph...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam041/2003041959.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2003041959.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/2003041959.html |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 327 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521827116 |