A Physicalist Manifesto: Thoroughly Modern Materialism

di Andrew Melnyk (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2003

A Physicalist Manifesto is a full treatment of the comprehensive physicalist view that, in some important sense, everything is physical. Andrew Melnyk argues that the view is best formulated by appeal to a carefully worked-out notion of realization, rather than supervenience; that, so formulated, physicalism must be importantly reductionist; that it need not repudiate causal and explanatory claims framed in non-physical language; and that it has the a posteriori epistemic status of a broad-scope scientific hypothesis. Two concluding chapters argue in detail that contemporary science provides no significant empirical evidence against physicalism and some considerable evidence for it. Written in a brisk, candid and exceptionally clear style, this 2003 book should appeal to professionals and students in philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of science.

• Autore: Andrew Melnyk
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Anno: 2003
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 344 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 630 gr.
• EAN: 9780521827119

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