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[filed under theme 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Full Idea
Jessica Wilson (1999) says what makes physicalist accounts different from emergentism etc. is that each individual causal power associated with a supervenient property is numerically identical with a causal power associated with its base property.
Gist of Idea
The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it
Source
Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM (The Impossibility of Superdupervenience [2003], n 11)
Book Ref
-: 'Philosophical Studies' [-], p.218
A Reaction
Hence the key thought in so-called (serious, rather than self-evident) 'emergentism' is so-called 'downward causation', which I take to be an idle daydream.
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[reality consists entirely of material things in space-time]:
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Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist
[Plato]
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Materialists cannot explain change
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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Astronomical movements are blessed, but they don't need the help of the gods
[Epicurus]
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Every part of the universe is body, and non-body is not part of it
[Hobbes]
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Philosophical problems are resolved into empirical facts
[Marx/Engels]
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Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states
[Quine]
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10243
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My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc.
[Quine]
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3454
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Reality is entirely particles in force fields
[Searle]
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'Physical facts determine all the facts' is the physicalists' slogan
[Kim]
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Gravitational and electrical fields are, for a materialist, distressingly empty of material
[Harré/Madden]
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Materialism is (roughly) that two worlds cannot differ without differing physically
[Lewis]
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16054
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Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical
[Horgan,T]
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Materialism requires that physics be causally complete
[Horgan,T]
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Some suggest that materialism is empty, because 'physical' cannot be properly characterized
[Mellor/Crane, by Papineau]
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For physicalists, the only relations are spatial, temporal and causal
[Robinson,H]
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Physicalism says in any two physically indiscernible worlds the positive facts are the same
[Chalmers, by Bennett,K]
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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce'
[Lynch/Glasgow]
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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it
[Lynch/Glasgow]
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Physicalism is 'part-whole' (all parts are physical), or 'supervenience/levels' (dependence on physical)
[Ladyman/Ross]
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Definitions of physicalism are compatible with a necessary God
[Bennett,K]
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