Platonistic Physicalism without Tears

Journal of Consciousness Studies 24 (9-10):72-90 (2017)
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Abstract

Susan Schneider argues that the entities to be identified as part of the 'physical base' for physicalism must be in part abstract and that this fact either falsifies physicalism or renders it so problematic as to be 'no physicalism worth having'. I accept the abstractness of the entities but argue both that physicalism is consistent with such and that none of the alleged problems for Platonistic physicalism are serious.

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D. Gene Witmer
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