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Consciousness and Physicalism: A Defense of a Research Program book cover

1st Edition

Consciousness and Physicalism A Defense of a Research Program

By Andreas Elpidorou, Guy Dove Copyright 2018
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge
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Consciousness and Physicalism: A Defense of a Research Program explores the nature of consciousness and its place in the world, offering a revisionist account of what it means to say that consciousness is nothing over and above the physical. By synthesizing work in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science from the last twenty years and forging a dialogue with contemporary... Read more

1. Introduction: Let's Get Physical

2. The Metaphysics of Physicalism

3. Defining Physicalism

4. A Physicalism with Bite

5. The Explanatory Gap and Consciousness

6. Ignorance and Knowledge

7. The Psychological Turn

8. Conclusion

Biography

Andreas Elpidorou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. He specializes in the philosophical study of the mind and has written extensively on the character of consciousness, cognition, and emotions.

Guy Dove is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. He specializes in philosophy of cognitive science and has published articles on concepts, embodied cognition, language development, and physicalism.

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