Includes bibliographical references (p. [350]-366) and index.
Contents:
The rise of physicalism / David Papineau -- From physics to physicalism / Barry Loewer -- Sufficiency claims and physicalism, a formulation / D. Gene Witmer -- Realization and mental causation / Sydney Shoemaker -- Physicalism and psychology, a plea for a substantive philosophy of mind / Georges Rey -- Davidson and nonreductive materialism, a tale of two cultures / Howard Robinson -- Substance physicalism / Noa Latham -- Possibility, physical and metaphysical / Stephen Leeds -- The roots of reductionism / Scott Sturgeon -- The significance of emergence / Tim Crane -- The methodological role of physicalism, a minimal skepticism / Carl Gillett -- Physicalism, empiricism, and positivism / Gary Gates -- Mental causation and consciousness, the two mind-body problems for the physicalist / Jaegwon Kim -- How not to solve the mind-body problem / Colin McGinn -- Deconstructing New Wave materialism / Terence Horgan and John Tienson -- In defence of New Wave materialism, a response to Horgan and Tienson / Brian McLaughlin -- Physicalism unfalsified, Chalmer's inconclusive conceivability argument / Andrew Melnyk.
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