Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems
in philosophy. Its adherents argue that there is no more important doctrine in philosophy …

Since Hilary Putnam offered multiple realization as an empirical hypothesis in the 1960s,
philosophical consensus has turned against the idea that mental processes could be …

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The world appears to contain diverse kinds of objects and systems—planets, tornadoes,
trees, ant colonies, and human persons, to name but a few—characterized by distinctive …

The relation between subjective consciousness and the physical brain is widely regarded as
the last mystery facing science. This book argues that there is no real puzzle here …

There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life
are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book …

The term 'naturalism'has no very precise meaning in contemporary philosophy. Its current
usage derives from debates in America in the first half of the last century. The self …

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What distinguishes laws of nature from ordinary facts? What are the" lawmakers": the facts in
virtue of which the laws are laws? How can laws be necessary, yet contingent? Lange …

How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be
studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a …