A Physicalist Manifesto

A Physicalist Manifesto Is A Full Treatment Of The Comprehensive Physicalist View That In Some Important Sense Everything Is Physical. Andrew Melnyk Argues That The View Is Best Formulated By Appeal To A Carefully Worked-Out Notion Of Realization Rather Than Supervenience; That So Formulated Physicalism Must Be Importantly Reductionist; That It Need Not Repudiate Causal And Explanatory Claims Framed In Non-Physical Language; And That It Has The A Posteriori Epistemic Status Of A Broad-Scope Scientific Hypothesis. Two Concluding Chapters Argue In Detail That Contemporary Science Provides No Significant Empirical Evidence Against Physicalism And Some Considerable Evidence For It. Written In A Brisk Candid And Exceptionally Clear Style This 2003 Book Should Appeal To Professionals And Students In Philosophy Of Mind Metaphysics And Philosophy Of Science.