Priest and Nagel on Being Someone: A Refutation of Physicalism

Heythrop Journal 49 (4):648-651 (2008)
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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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10.1111/j.1468-2265.2008.00389.x

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