Physicalism Deconstructed: Levels of Reality and the Mind-Body Problem

ISBN-13: 9781108472166 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 274 str.

Kevin Morris

Opis

Provides a philosophical and historical critique of contemporary conceptions of physicalism, especially nonreductive, levels-based approaches to physicalist metaphysics.

Recenzje

Advance praise: 'Physicalism Deconstructed is a beautifully clear and readable book that throws down the gauntlet for physicalists to accept the consequences of their core commitments. Kevin Morris advances an unexpectedly persuasive argument that the world according to physics really is all the world. This challenge to the layer cake view of reality cannot be ignored.' Thomas Polger, University of Cincinnati

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Supervenience and non-reductive physicalism; 2. Non-reductive physicalism and the exclusion problem; 3. Functional realization; 4. Subset realization; 5. Grounding and physicalism; 6. The rise of non-reductive physicalism; 7. The physicalist problematic reconsidered; Conclusion.