نتایج جستجو برای: reductionist physicalism
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We should not accept standard anti-emergentist arguments that rest on assuming the correctness of physicalism. Standard strategies that are intended to block the possibility of emergent properties come at a high cost. This paper argues that they rule out a range of ways that the world could be that are, at least prima facie, scientifically acceptable prior to scientific inquiry. The paper is in...
THEJOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY HOW TO KEEP THE 'PHYSICAL' IN PHYSI(:ALISM* Physicalism is roughly the thesis (1) that every entity is either itself a physical entity or is exhaustively composed, ultimately, of physical entities, and (2) that every property is either itself a physical property or is realized, ultimately, by physical properties.l Never mind whether exhaustive composition and realizatio...
An adequate ontology of color must face the empirical facts about perceptual variation. In this paper I begin by reviewing a range of data about perceptual variation, and showing how they tell against color physicalism and motivate color relationalism. Next I consider a series of objections to the argument from perceptual variation, and argue that they are unpersuasive. My conclusion will be th...
Evolution has conserved "economic" systems that perform many functions, faster or better, with less. For example, three to five leukocyte types protect from thousands of pathogens. To achieve so much with so little, biological systems combine their limited elements, creating complex structures. Yet, the prevalent research paradigm is reductionist. Focusing on infectious diseases, reductionist a...
How computational thinking resolves a problem in philosophy.
A Thomistic metaphysics of participation in being offers an account rationality that is more complete and coherent than nonreductive physicalism. It a reasoned understanding how embodied intellectual subject shares life. This metaphysical framework supports as participated power, essential property human nature empowering persons to know reality make choices accordingly. Human fulfilment truth ...
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