Abstract This paper contributes to answering the question how physicalism can be defined for a world without fundamental physical phenomena. In recent in this journal, Torin Alter, Sam Coleman, and Robert J. Howell propose necessary condition on physicalism. They argue that is true only if there no infinitely descending chain of mentally constituted I alleged faces counterexamples. An phenomena...

To my family, anna and ammu ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my sincere indebtness and gratitude to my thesis advisor Dr. Dan Simon, for the ingenious commitment, encouragement and highly valuable advice he provided me over the entire course of this thesis. I would also like to thank my committee members Dr. Zhiqiang Gao and Dr. Sridhar Ungarala for their support and advice. I wish thank...