What is the core message of science? Is it the idea that everything is, at the bottom, just mechanical processes of “matter in motion”? Does science tell us that what is really happening when we talk ...

Friedrich Nietzsche, in his book The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft), has a madman exclaim on a market square: “Whither is God? … I will tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are ...

Russellian monism—an influential doctrine proposed by Russell (The analysis of matter, Routledge, London, 1927/1992)—is roughly the view that the natural sciences can only ever tell us about the ...

In this work I attempt to justify the claim that the discovery of statistically relevant brain correlates of consciousness supports Non-Reductive Physicalism. First I distinguish the main varieties of ...

Google returns no hits for the phrase "dysteleological physicalism" (until now, I suppose). But it is arguably the most fundamental insight that science has given us about the ultimate nature of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I clarify a widely accepted form of contemporary naturalism and argue that supervenient physicalism should not be considered an option for ...

A doctrine stating that everything in the world can be reduced down to its fundamental physical, or material, basis. For this reason, the word "physicalism" is often used interchangeably with the word ...