Dilemmatic human-animal boundaries in Britain and Romania: Post-materialist and materialist dehumanization

Manifesto for a post-materialist science.

Materialist and post-materialist values and cannabis smoking among young adults: a population-based study in southern Sweden.

OBJECTIVES The association between materialist, mixed and post-materialist values, and the experience of cannabis smoking among young adults was investigated. METHODS The 2004 public health survey in Skåne, southern Sweden, is a cross-sectional study with a 59% response rate. The 6787 persons aged 18-34 years included in this study answered a postal questionnaire. A logistic regression model ...

A Materialist Believe in Qualia ?

Should a materialist believe in qualia? Yes and no. 'Qual ia ' is a name for the occupants of a certain functional role that is spelled out in our tacitly known folk psychology. If materialism is true, there are no perfect occupants of the role, and hence no perfect deservers of the name. But in all probability there are imperfect occupants of the role, imperfect deservers of the name. Good eno...

Subverting Campbell’s Materialist Conclusion

Keith Campbell and Jonathan Schaffer propose an ontology in which entities consist in collocated collections of tropes, and tropes are individuated by location. This would imply that immaterial entities are not possible. In this paper, I attempt to subvert this materialist conclusion by giving two arguments against the key individuation principle it requires. I show that the locational individu...

Phenomenal Concepts and the Materialist Constraint

1. We begin with the following contrast. When considering the theoretical reduction of water to H 2 O, we find the connection explanatory. We see why water is liquid at room temperature, transparent, turns to vapor under suitable circumstances, and the like, by appeal to its chemical structure and other facts expressible in the vocabulary of physics and chemistry. The connection posited between...