Physicalism and its discontents

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Label

Physicalism and its discontents

Statement of responsibility

edited by Carl Gillett, Barry Loewer

Contributor

• Gillett, Carl, 1967-
• Loewer, Barry

Subject

• Materialism
• Philosophy of mind

Language

eng

Summary

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Physicalism, a topic that has been central to philosophy of mind and metaphysics in recent years, is the philosophical view that everything in the space-time world is ultimately physical. The physicalist will claim that all facts about the mind and the mental are physical facts and deny the existence of mental events and state insofar as these are thought of as independent of physical things, events and states. This collection of new essays offers a series of 'state-of-the-art' perspectives on this important doctrine and brings new depth and breadth to the philosophical debate. A group of distinguished philosophers, comprising both physicalists and their critics, consider a wide range of issues including the historical genesis and present justification of physicalism, its metaphysical presuppositions and methodological role, its implications for mental causation, and the account it provides of consciousness. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Materialism, Philosophy of mind

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

146/.3

Index

index present

LC call number

B825

LC item number

.P49 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography