PRIEST AND NAGEL ON BEING SOMEONE: A REFUTATION OF PHYSICALISM
Physicalism entails that a possible world which is a minimal physical duplicate of the actual world be a duplicate simpliciter of the actual world. Because what I really am is not a particular human being, there exists a minimal physical duplicate of the actual world which is not a duplicate simplic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2008
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Heythrop journal
Year: 2008, Volume: 49, Issue: 4, Pages: 648-651 |
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| Summary: | Physicalism entails that a possible world which is a minimal physical duplicate of the actual world be a duplicate simpliciter of the actual world. Because what I really am is not a particular human being, there exists a minimal physical duplicate of the actual world which is not a duplicate simpliciter of the actual world. Therefore, physicalism is false. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2265 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2008.00389.x |