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 …

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 …

Neutral monism is a monistic metaphysics. It holds that ultimate reality is all of one kind. To
this extent neutral monism is in agreement with the more familiar versions of monism …

Russellian monism offers a distinctive perspective on the relationship between the physical
and the phenomenal. For example, on one version of the view, phenomenal properties are …

Panpsychism is the view that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world.
The view has a long and venerable history in philosophical traditions of both East and West …

In The Physical Signature of Computation, Neal Anderson and Gualtiero Piccinini articulate
and defend the robust mapping account--the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive …

Physical truths concern only structure and dynamics and therefore cannot fully explain
consciousness. 1 That is the core idea of David Chalmers' structure and dy namics …

The typical empirical approach to studying consciousness holds that we can only observe
the neural correlates of experiences, not the experiences themselves. In this paper we …

Psychedelic substances are known to facilitate mystical-type experiences which can include
metaphysical beliefs about the fundamental nature of reality. Such insights have been …

This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of
property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for …