physicalism

• “That doesn't lead to 'physicalism is triumphant' but 'all bets are off'.”

  Bunny and a Book

• “In metaphysics this idea is often called physicalism (or materialism), which assumes in a biological context that (a) biological properties supervene on physical properties (i.e., no difference in a biological property without a difference in some underlying physical property), and (b) each particular biological process (or token) is metaphysically identical to some particular physico-chemical process.”

  Reductionism in Biology

• “I have an interest in the notion of physicalism, but I don't really have a complete grasp of the idea - this idea seems to go a long way toward helping me understand it more.”

  Nancey Murphy - Is “Nonreductive Physicalism” an Oxymoron?

• “Edit materialism aka physicalism aka postmodernism aka monism”

  The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Simply Incorrect Embryology (Chapter 3) - The Panda's Thumb

• “The same taste for cartoons seems to be in evidence among critics of evolution who imagine that they are attacking some monolithic conspiracy such as “materialism aka physicalism aka postmodernism aka monism.””

  The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Simply Incorrect Embryology (Chapter 3) - The Panda's Thumb

• “This is exactly where materialism aka physicalism aka postmodernism aka monism falls very squarely on its face, which, poetically, is the appropriate attitude for repentance. steve s”

  The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Simply Incorrect Embryology (Chapter 3) - The Panda's Thumb

• “This is exactly where materialism aka physicalism aka postmodernism aka monism falls very squarely on its face, which, poetically, is the appropriate attitude for repentance.”

  The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Simply Incorrect Embryology (Chapter 3) - The Panda's Thumb

• “-- "Physicalism" seems to be the thesis that there are only: (i) physical entities like elementary particles (or physical strings, or physical fields) or (ii) their wholes (and maybe also (iii) some inner, immanent ontological principles or parts of (i) and (ii), like essences, in case the physicalism is ontologically sophisticated, or even (iv) "supervening" mental entities, properties or states in case the physicalism is a non-reductive one, e.g. like that of John Post).”

  dangerous idea

• “materialism aka physicalism aka postmodernism aka monism”

  The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Simply Incorrect Embryology (Chapter 3) - The Panda's Thumb

• “Neither of these philosophers counts as the sort of whimsical crank that Sal and Soft seem to think anyone arguing against physicalism must be.”

  Perils of pop philosophy

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