- physicalism,
which denies dualism.
Physicalists hold that
physicalism is true. A
natural question for
physicalists, then, is
whether the
truth of physicalism...
- This view was
espoused by the 17th-century
rationalist Baruch Spinoza.
Physicalists argue that only
entities postulated by
physical theory exist, and that...
- that "there are more
properties than
physicalists talk about".
Jackson would eventually call
himself a
physicalist and say, in 2023, "I no
longer accept...
-
Daniel Dennett's
multiple drafts model of
consciousness is a
physicalist theory of
consciousness based upon cognitivism,
which views the mind in terms...
-
understanding of consciousness,
rejecting Cartesian dualism in
favor of a
physicalist perspective.
Dennett remarked in
several places (such as "Self-portrait"...
-
followed him, now tend to
identify themselves as
generically non-reductive
physicalists. Putnam's
invocation of
multiple realizability does not, of course, directly...
-
since they
studied stars and maths, gave
cosmogonies and were
largely physicalists who
tried to
explain the
nature of matter. The
first three philosophers...
-
functionalists claim to be
physicalists—indeed, some of them, such as
David Lewis, have
claimed to be
strict reductionist-type
physicalists.
Functionalism is fundamentally...
-
theories of
meaning or
direct realist accounts of perception. Rather,
physicalists believe that no "element of reality" is
missing from the mathematical...
- physicalism. Such
arguments have been
criticized by many philosophers. Some
physicalists, such as
Daniel Dennett,
argue that
philosophical zombies are logically...
