A Physicalist Manifesto : Thoroughly Modern Materialism Paperback / softback
by Andrew (University of Missouri, Columbia) Melnyk
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/08/2007
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- ISBN:9780521038942
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521038942
