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67Stalking the elusive physicalist thesis: Daniel Stoljar: Physicalism. New York: Routledge, 2010, 252pp, $35.95 PB, $140.00 HB (review)Metascience 21 (1): 71-75. 2011.Stalking the elusive physicalist thesis Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-5 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9528-2 Authors D. Gene Witmer, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, P. O. Box 118545, Gainesville, FL 32611-8545, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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26On Making Everything BoringFlorida Philosophical Review 11 (1): 1-16. 2011.Presidential Address for the 2011 meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association. A somewhat playful but also serious meditation on ways in which the philosophical impulse can be understood as an urge to demystify or render "boring." Topics include psychological peculiarities of philosophers, reflections on methods for teaching students at an introductory level, the contrast between science and philosophy, the sense in which philosophy may or may not begin in "wonder," and why we should value …Read more
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154How to be a (sort of) A Priori physicalistPhilosophical Studies 131 (1): 185-225. 2006.What has come to be known as “a priori physicalism” is the thesis, roughly, that the non-physical truths in the actual world can be deduced a priori from a complete physical description of the actual world. To many contemporary philosophers, a priori physicalism seems extremely implausible. In this paper I distinguish two kinds of a priori physicalism. One sort – strict a priori physicalism – I reject as both unmotivated and implausible. The other sort – liberal a priori physicalism – I argue is…Read more
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56Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation, edited by Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup (review)Mind 120 (479): 882-888. 2011.
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30Review of Steven Horst, Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (4). 2008.
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44Multiple realizability and psychological laws: Evaluating Kim's challengeIn Sven Walter & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds.), Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action, Imprint Academic. pp. 59. 2003.A close examination of Kim's argument in "Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction" for the claim that if a kind is multiply realizable in a way that blocks identification with more fundamental properties it is also a kind unlikely to appear as an appropriate kind in a theory in the first place. Ultimately, I argue that there is one reasonably promising argument of this sort, but its success turns on explanatory questions the answers to which are far from obvious.
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39Experience, appearance, and hidden featuresPSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 7. 2001.Charles Siewert has given us an ingenious thought experiment involving a limited lack of conscious experience. The possibility of the described case is incompatible with a number of popular theories of consciousness. Siewert acknowledges, however, that this possibility is not a direct threat to "hidden feature" theories. I aim to do two things: first, strengthen his defense of the claim that the case is genuinely possible by considering and rejecting some further attempts to explain away our tem…Read more
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