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The Hope and Horror of Physicalism: An Existential Treatise book cover

1st Edition

The Hope and Horror of Physicalism An Existential Treatise

By Christopher Devlin Brown Copyright 2024
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge
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This book assesses the existentially relevant consequences of physicalism. It argues that accepting physicalism is the healthiest stance we can take in the face of an account of the self and world which offers no metaphysical assurances. Why should we care about physicalism? On one hand, the view seems to be inconsistent with things that many people find valuable, such as the existence of free... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: The hope and the horror

1. Historical preliminaries

2. Two notions of the physical

3. Free will

4. God

5. Immortal soul

6. Ultimate purpose

7. Karma

8. Epicurean freedom and scientific imperialism

Part 2: Confronting the horror

9. Anti-Anti-Natalism

10. Mental health and physicalism

11. Mechanistic forces of darkness, the self, and rationality

Part 3: The mental and the physical

12. The Hard Problem of Consciousness

13. Mental Causation: Causal Closure of the Physical and the Exclusion Problem

14. Multiple Realizability

15. Conclusion

Biography

Christopher Devlin Brown is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China. He has publications on physicalism and consciousness in journals such as Analysis, Synthese, Erkenntnis, Journal of Consciousness Studies and elsewhere. In his free time, he enjoys playing abrasive noise music.

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