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 …

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 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 …

In this paper I want to discuss the way in which physical science has come to claim a
particular kind of hegemony over other subjects in the second half of this century. This claim …

A wave of recent work in metaphysics seeks to undermine the anti-reductionist, functionalist
consensus of the past few decades in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. That …

How should physical entities be characterized? Physicalists, who have most to do with the
notion, usually characterize the physical by reference to two components, 1 1. The physical …

As a first pass, physicalism is the doctrine that there is nothing over and above the physical.
Much recent philosophical work has been devoted to spelling out what this means in more …

Physicalism is the philosophical view that everything in the space-time world is ultimately
physical. This collection of new essays offers a series of" state-of-the-art" perspectives on …

It is widely noted that physicalism, taken as the doctrine that the world contains just what
physics says it contains, faces a dilemma which, some like Tim Crane and DH Mellor have …

Many contemporary Anglo-American philosophers describe themselves as naturalists. But
what do they mean by that term? Popular naturalist slogans like," there is no first philosophy" …