As a first pass, physicalism is the doctrine that there is nothing over and above the physical.
Much recent philosophical work has been devoted to spelling out what this means in more …

The mind–body problem is the problem of explaining how the happenings of our mental
lives are related to physical states, events and processes. Proposed solutions to the problem …

Are there existing alternatives to corporate globalization? What are the prospects for and
commonalities between communities and movements such as Occupy, the World Social …

Quantum mechanics supersedes classical mechanics, and social science, some argue,
should be responsive to this change. This paper finds that two rather different arguments are …

Physicalism is the claim that that there is nothing in the world but the physical. Philosophers
who defend physicalism have to confront a well-known dilemma, known as Hempel's …

A number of years ago, I recognized that the mathematical formalism of modern physics,
well developed for describing the inanimate world, cannot be so efficient when the human …

A core issue of embodiment is the question of how phenomenal and agentive
consciousness relates to external forms of behavior. Instead of biasing the question in terms …

Sydney Shoemaker has been arguing for more than a decade for an account of the mind–
body problem in which the notion of realization takes centre stage. His aim is to provide a …

Abstract In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird eine Verteidigung des nicht-reduktiven
Physikalismus gegen den Vorwurf des Epiphänomenalismus entwickelt. Laut dem Vorwurf …

Libertarian free will is, roughly, the view that the same agential states can cause different
possible actions. Nonreductive physicalism is, roughly, the view that mental states cause …