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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 November 2009
      26 November 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511570797
      9780521801751
      9780521042123
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570797
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 380 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.572kg, 380 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Computer Science, Logic, Philosophy, Computing: General Interest
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    Physicalism, a topic that has been central to modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics, is the philosophical view that everything in the space-time world is ultimately physical. The physicalist will claim that all facts about the mind and the mental are physical facts and deny the existence of mental events and state insofar as these are thought of as independent of physical things, events and states. This collection of essays, first published in 2001, offers a series of perspectives on this important doctrine and brings depth and breadth to the philosophical debate. A group of distinguished philosophers, comprising both physicalists and their critics, consider a wide range of issues including the historical genesis and present justification of physicalism, its metaphysical presuppositions and methodological role, its implications for mental causation, and the account it provides of consciousness.

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    "...a fine source of some cutting-edge work in a rapidly changing field." Philosophy in Review

    "...anyone looking for a state-of-the-art collection of essays discussing current issues in metaphysics of mind and its implications for consciousness and mental causation will find this collection useful, rich and provocative in places." Metapsychology Online Book Reviews

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