Making Room for a This-Worldly Physicalism

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Topoi 37 (3):523-532 (2018)
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Physicalism is thought to entail that mental properties supervene on microphysical properties, or in other words that all God had to do was to create the fundamental physical properties and the rest came along for free. In this paper, we question the all-god-had-to-do reflex.

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Barbara Gail Montero
CUNY Graduate Center
Crystal Brown
University of Missouri, St. Louis

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