Philosophical

Philosophical theories combine relevant fundamental principles for theories of consciousness with framing of the mind-body problem and philosophical defenses of Materialism.

  • Materialism/Philosophical—Overview
  • Philosophical History of Materialism
  • Hobbes’s Mechanical Phantasms and the Material Mind
  • Locke’s Reflexive Consciousness and the Making of the Person
  • Hume’s Bundle Theory of Perceptions
  • Epiphenomenalism (Materialism)
  • Emergence
  • Functionalism
  • Kim’s Supervenience
  • Flanagan’s Constructive Naturalism
  • Goldstein’s Mind-Body Problem
  • Mitchell’s 15 Questions
  • Ney’s Physicalism, Not Scientism
  • Hardcastle’s Argument Against Materialism Skeptics
  • Stoljar’s Epistemic View and Non-Standard Physicalism
  • Bayne’s Unified, Multidimensional Consciousness: Structure Before Mechanism
  • Weisberg’s Explanatory Optimism via Automated Compression Theory
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