Physicalism is the view, roughly, that everything is physical. This thesis is often characterized in terms of a particular supervenience thesis. Central to this thesis is the idea of physical ...

Synthese, Vol. 198, No. S8, Supplement 8: Special Issue on New Directions in the Epistemology of Modality (2021), pp. S2107-S2134 (28 pages) According to the scrutability argument against physicalism, ...

A doctrine stating that everything in the world can be reduced down to its fundamental physical, or material, basis. For this reason, the word "physicalism" is often used interchangeably with the word ...

Jack Smart, who has died aged 92, changed the course of contemporary philosophy. He was most prominent in the philosophy of mind, but also influenced many other thinkers in their approach to physical ...

JJC Smart:JACK SMART, who has died aged 92, changed the course of philosophy of mind. He was a pioneer of physicalism – the set of theories that hold that consciousness, sensation and thought do not, ...

What is the core message of science? Is it the idea that everything is, at the bottom, just mechanical processes of “matter in motion”? Does science tell us that what is really happening when we talk ...