Conservation of Energy is Relevant to Physicalism

Dialectica 61 (4):573-582 (2007)
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I argue against Barbara Montero's claim that Conservation of Energy has nothing to do with physicalism. I reject her reconstruction of the argument for physicalism from CoE, and offer an alternative reconstruction that better captures the intuitions of those who believe that there is a conflict between interactionist dualism and CoE.

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10.1111/dltc.2007.61.issue-4

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