PHIL 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Physicalism, Materialism
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Mental things are physical, determined by the brain activity one may encounter. i. e. out of body experience. Not sound, conclusion isn"t guaranteed to be true. A person consists of a mental part and a physical part a. Coherent to doubt you have a body (nonessential, accidental part) , but you can"t coherently doubt the mind (essential). There are no such things as persons. a. Rearranging physical things doesn"t make it something new. Physicalism can account for all of observed phenomena. Dualism can account for all of the observed phenomena, but posits mysterious kind of thing, immater minds. Simpler theories are to be preferr over the more complex ones whe both are explanatorily equivalent. Therefore, physicalism is true to be but not necessarily over idealism. Just because a theory is simple, that i. e. absolute nihilism, absolute doesn"t correlate with truth. Physicalism can account for everything that dualism can ll of the. Nature of dualism the osits a mmaterial y than.
