New York: Cambridge University Press (2003)
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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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Keywords | Materialism Metaphysics Physicalism Realization Supervenience Multiple Realization Mental Causation Exclusion Argument |
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Reprint years | 2004, 2007, 2009 |
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Call number | B825.M38 2003 |
ISBN(s) | 9780511056321 9780521827119 9780511498817 0521827116 0521038944 |
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