physicalist

It thus gives rise to a particularly strong form of ontological naturalism, namely the physicalist doctrine that any state that has physical effects must itself be physical.

Naturalism Papineau, David 2007

BTW the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics also falls into this black hole of non-science, but it rescues the "physicalist" interpretation of reality, instead of the idealism that is the prima facie message of QM.

Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

Anyone who is what we would today call a 'physicalist' would be a naturalist.

Kemp Smith's Sense of 'Naturalism' 2005

Anyone who is what we would today call a 'physicalist' would be a naturalist.

Archive 2005-03-01 2005

Now, I don't deny that you can take a monist view that accounts or allows for these things, and slap the label 'materialist' or 'physicalist' on there.

Against Darwinism 2009

Now, I don't deny that you can take a monist view that accounts or allows for these things, and slap the label 'materialist' or 'physicalist' on there.

Against Darwinism 2009

The skeptic in me says that when 'will' and 'thought' and 'reason' are called 'emergent properties', what's really being said is, 'Hell, we have no idea, so let's kick them under the heading of strong emergence – which is like hocus-pocus for the physicalist'.

Against Darwinism 2009

The physicalist view, the view that says the color is an absorption property of the surface of the rose, that leaves out the fact that colors are things we see.

Deepak Chopra: Interview with Alva Noe, Ph.D. 2010

It was presented by that biggest (or smallest, if we are being physicalist about it) Orientalist phoney of the present, Rory Stewart.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

Why did Lycan feel it necessary to, even as a physicalist, write a paper admitting that the case for dualism is roughly as good as the case for physicalism with regards to the merits of reason?

Bunny and a Book 2008