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 …

How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view—both in academia and in the
popular press—that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders …

The most remarkable fact about the universe is that certain parts of it are conscious.
Somehow nature has managed to pull the rabbit of experience out of a hat made of mere …

Enactive trauma therapy is grounded in so-called enactivism, which holds that, like anyone
else, traumatized individuals are (1) embrained, embodied, and environmentally …

I take it that physics provides our scientific understanding of that world at the most
fundamental level. However, its theories are perpetually provisional and the more or less …

An introduction to the mind–body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering
a powerful new one. Philosophers from Descartes to Kripke have struggled with the glittering …

Or rather, it must almost be rejected. This qualification arises because “Russellian monism,”
characterized roughly by Chalmers (2002, p. 265) as the view that “consciousness is …

What is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or
science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the …

According to David Chalmers (2002),'we have good reason to suppose that consciousness
has a fundamental place in nature'(p. 135). This, he thinks is because the world as revealed …

Might the world be structured, as Leibniz thought, so that every part of matter is divided ad
infinitum? The Physicist David Bohm accepted infinitely decomposable matter, and even …