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  • noun Plural form of physicalist.

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Examples

  • Physicalism does not require that we distinguish between "guided" and "unguided" cause, because in the view of physicalists, there is no difference.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • I continue to read up on it, and frankly most of the physicalists sound like effective dualists anyway.

    Blurring the Line 2007

  • Indeed, for most physicalists, they are in the head by being realized in the brain or in the central nervous system.

    Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

  • Like earlier direct realists, strong representationalists tend to be naturalists or physicalists.

    Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

  • …For the physicalists we are just brain states, we identify completely with our brain processes.

    Archive 2009-04-10 2009

  • Reductive physicalists, however, are no better, since they simply deal with human cognition and qualia by failing to acknowledge their existence.

    Archive 2009-05-01 James F. McGrath 2009

  • Reductive physicalists, however, are no better, since they simply deal with human cognition and qualia by failing to acknowledge their existence.

    Adventures in the Spirit: Part Two James F. McGrath 2009

  • Predicate dualism is the view of most non-reductive physicalists, who maintain that the semantics of description for attributes of mind cannot be reduced to the descriptives used for physical structures or processes.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • Most physicalists . . . accept the causal closure of the physical not only as a fundamental metaphysical doctrine but as an indispensable methodological presupposition of the physical sciences. . .

    Stewart Goetz - The Causal Closure Argument William Harryman 2009

  • …For the physicalists we are just brain states, we identify completely with our brain processes.

    An Exploration into an Integral Approach to Knowledge 2009

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