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Physicalism, Closure, and the Structure of Causal Arguments for Physicalism: A Naturalistic Formulation of the Physical
Review of Philosophy and Psychology Pub Date : 2021-07-12 , DOI: 10.1007/s13164-021-00567-0
Hamed Bikaraan-Behesht 1
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Physicalism is the idea that everything either is physical or is nothing over and above the physical. For this formulation of physicalism to have determinate content, it should be identified what the “physical” refers to; i.e. the body problem. Some other closely related theses, especially the ones employed in the causal arguments for different versions of physicalism, and more especially the causal closure thesis, are also subject to the body problem. In this paper, I do two things. First, I explore the structure of causal arguments for physicalism that represents a general argument. To do this, the premises and the conclusion of the general argument are given exact formulations. Second, drawing on those premises, especially the causal closure thesis, I propose a naturalistic formulation of the physical that satisfies the requirements any formulation of the physical is expected to fulfill. Following this proposal, we also have a recursive algorithm to recognize the set of all physical events.



中文翻译:

物理主义、封闭和物理主义因果论证的结构:物理的自然主义表述

物理主义认为一切要么是物理的,要么是超越物理的。要使物理主义的这种表述具有确定的内容,就应该确定“物理”指的是什么;即身体问题。其他一些密切相关的论题,尤其是在不同版本的物理主义的因果论证中使用的论题,尤其是因果闭合论题,也受制于身体问题。在这篇论文中,我做了两件事。首先,我探讨了代表一般论证的物理主义因果论证的结构。为了做到这一点,一般论证的前提和结论被给出了精确的表述。其次,利用这些前提,尤其是因果闭包命题,我提出了一个自然的物理公式,它满足任何物理公式都期望满足的要求。根据这个提议,我们还有一个递归算法来识别所有物理事件的集合。

更新日期:2021-07-13
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