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8Supervenience Physicalism and the Berry ParadoxPhilosophia 49 (4): 1681-1693. 2021.This paper intervenes in an argument over the number of thoughts that could be thought. The argument has important implications for supervenience physicalism, the thesis that all is physical or supervenient on the physical. If, per quantum mechanics, the number of possible physical states is finite while the number of possible thoughts is infinite, then the latter exceeds the former in number, and supervenience phyicalsim fails. Abelson first argued that possible thoughts are infinite as we can …Read more
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Drexel UniversityRegular Faculty
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |