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 …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Summary Physicalism dominated Anglo‐American philosophy in the latter half of the
twentieth century, and is perhaps still the most popular view among analytic philosophers …

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 …

This book argues that a plausible account of emergence requires replacing the traditional
assumption that what primarily exists are particular entities with generic processes …

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" …

This article discusses recent disagreements over the correct formulation of physicalism.
Although there appears to be a consensus outside those who discuss the issue that …

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 …