Jalloh, Mahmoud (2023) The nature of the physical and the meaning of physicalism. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 38 (2). pp. 205-223. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
I provide an account of the physical appropriate to the task of the physicalist while remaining faithful to the usage of “physical” natural to physicists. Physicalism is the thesis that everything in the world is physical, or reducible to the physical. I presuppose that some version of this position is a live epistemic possibility. The physicalist is confronted with Hempel’s dilemma: that physicalism is either false or contentless. The proposed account of the physical avoids both horns and generalizes a recent proposal by Vicente (2011). My account defines physicalism as the thesis that there are no objects that cannot be described by physical quantities. A dimensional account of physical quantities is given: quantities are determined by measurement procedures.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | physicalism, quantities, metaphysics, mind, dimensions | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 27 Oct 2023 19:58 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2023 19:58 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 22710 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/article/view... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.24836 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics |
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| Date: | September 2023 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 205-223 | ||||||
| Volume: | 38 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22710 |
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