“My plate is full; I dig that. And I can't be everywhere all the time, but my mind, heart and spirit has… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as… — Carl Elliott Copy Share Image
“The only fully consistent alternative to belief in God, properly understood, is some version of “materialism” or “physicalism” or (to use the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“The term physical is just kinda like an honorific word, kinda like the word 'real' when we say 'the real truth'. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In truth a clear-headed physicalist shouldn't be thinking any of these dualist thoughts. If pains are one and the same as C-fibres… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
A certain kind of methodologically-minded philosopher of science is quick to read off metaphysical conclusions from features of scientific practice. Chemists don't… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
