Friedrich Nietzsche, in his book The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft), has a madman exclaim on a market square: “Whither is God? … I will tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are ...

The paper offers a general critique of physicalism and of one variety of nonphysicalism, arguing that such theses are untenable. By distinguishing between the absolute conception of reality and the ...

What is the core message of science? Is it the idea that everything is, at the bottom, just mechanical processes of “matter in motion”? Does science tell us that what is really happening when we talk ...

In this paper I shall carefully examine some recent arguments for dualism. These arguments presuppose a strong version of physicalism that I consider inappropriate. I shall try to show that, if we ...

Google returns no hits for the phrase "dysteleological physicalism" (until now, I suppose). But it is arguably the most fundamental insight that science has given us about the ultimate nature of ...

A doctrine stating that everything in the world can be reduced down to its fundamental physical, or material, basis. For this reason, the word "physicalism" is often used interchangeably with the word ...