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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 November 2018
      29 November 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108662178
      9781108472166
      9781108459068
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108662178
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 274 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.402kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Epistemology and Metaphysics, Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy
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    How should thought and consciousness be understood within a view of the world as being through-and-through physical? Many philosophers have proposed non-reductive, levels-based positions, according to which the physical domain is fundamental, while thought and consciousness are higher-level processes, dependent on and determined by physical processes. In this book, Kevin Morris's careful philosophical and historical critique shows that it is very difficult to make good metaphysical sense of this idea - notions like supervenience, physical realization, and grounding all fail to articulate a viable non-reductive, levels-based physicalism. Challenging assumptions about the mind-body problem and providing new perspectives on the debate over physicalism, this accessible and comprehensive book will interest scholars working in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

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    Advance praise:‘Physicalism Deconstructed is a beautifully clear and readable book that throws down the gauntlet for physicalists to accept the consequences of their core commitments. Kevin Morris advances an unexpectedly persuasive argument that the world according to physics really is all the world. This challenge to the layer cake view of reality cannot be ignored.'

    Thomas Polger - University of Cincinnati

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