A physicalist manifesto : thoroughly modern materialism / Andrew Melnyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melnyk, Andrew, 1962- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in philosophy.

Cambridge studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Realization Physicalism

2. But Why Not Supervenience?

3. Realizationism and R[superscript *]d[superscript *]ct[superscript **]n[superscript *]sm

4. Causation and Explanation in a Realizationist World

5. The Evidence against Realization Physicalism

6. The Evidence for Realization Physicalism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13818-3

1-280-43122-9

0-511-16986-8

0-511-06265-6

0-511-20602-X

0-511-29703-3

0-511-49881-0

0-511-07111-6

OCLC:

57253763