A Physicalist Manifesto物理主义者宣言

2007-8  

Melnyk, Andrew  

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Provides the fullest formulation of a comprehensive physicalist view to date ^ Evaluates the empirical standing of physicalism in unprecedented detail Self-contained and thesis-driven discussions，accessible to graduate and advanced undergraduate students， make it an ideal seminar text A Physicalist Manifesto is the fullest yet 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 carefully worked-out notion of realization， rather than supervenience； that，so forumlated，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 posterior epistemic status of a broad-scope scientific hypothesis。Two concluding chapters argue in inprecedented detail that contemporary science provides no significant empirical evidence against physicalism and some considerable evidence for it。Written in brisk， candid and exceptionally clear style， this book should appeal to professionals and students in philosophy of mind， metaphysics， and philosophy of science。

PrefaceIntroduction1 Realization Physicahsm　1. Orientation　2.“Phvsical”　3.A Canonical Forumlation　4.Kealization Physicalism and Retentiveness2 But Why Not Supervenience?　1.Realizationism，Supervenience，and Physical Necessitation　2.Can Global Supervenience Provide a Superior Alternative to　Realizationism?3 Realizadonism and R*d*Ct**n*sm　1.Introduction　2.More—or—Less Nonphilosophical Reductionism　3.Two Philosophical Reductionisms　4.Reductionism in the Core Sense　5.Retentive Realizationism's COUmlitmeut to　Ikeductionism in the Core Sense　6.How Damaging Is the Conmfitment?4 Causation and Explanation lU a Ikealizationist W10rJd　1.Introduction　2.The Intuitive Roots of the Charge of　EpiphenolllenaliSlll　3.A Theory of Causation and Causal Ikelevance　4.The Unobjectionability of Multiple Explanations of　the Same Thing5 The Evidence against Realization Physicalism　1.Introduction　2.Direct Evidence against Realization Physicalism：　The Mind　3.Direct Evidence against Realization Physicalism：　Biology　4.Indirect Evidence against Realization Physicalisnl6 The Evidence for Realization Physicalisnl　1.Introduction　2.The Ikole of Infefence tO the Best Explanation　3.The lkole ofEnumerative Induction　4.The Phvsical lkealization of Chemical Phenomena　5.The Physical Realization of Biological Phenomena　6.The Extension of the Argument to Other Scientific　Phenolllena7.The Physical Realization of Mental PhenomenaReferencesIndex

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