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 ...

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, ...

This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This ...

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 ...