Physicalism without Pop-out
Physicalism without Pop-out
This chapter focuses on a general problem that must be confronted by physicalism. This is that even if such a physicalism is true, it is not going to be very satisfying in a range of important cases. The problem is looked at here in a more general and systematic manner; although we may be in a position to believe that the psychological is a priori derivable from the physical, so that the presence of this or that psychological phenomenon is a priori derivable from how things physically are, we are very unlikely to be in a position to conduct a derivation or even to get a sense of how it would go. It is argued here that we suffer from a derivational deficiency that takes away from the satisfaction that derivations generally give us.
Keywords: physicalism, psychological phenomenon, derivation, derivational deficiency, a priori derivable
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