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Molecular Models and the Question of Physicalism
Hyle 5 (2):117 - 134 (1999)
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By their own account, physicalists are committed to the claim that physics is causally complete, or closed. The claim is presented as an empirical one. However, detailed and explicit empirical arguments for the claim are rare. I argue that molecular models are a key source of evidence but that, on closer inspection, they do not support the completeness claimAuthor's Profile
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