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Physicalist meaning
An adherent of physicalism; A cosmological proceduralist.
Example sentences (6)
He has nailed his colours to the mast as a physicalist exponent of value theory and should stand by it rather than pretend to be something else.
According to the type physicalist, to be in a certain type of mental state is just to be in a certain type of physical brain state.
Idealism thus rejects physicalist and dualist theories that fail to ascribe priority to the mind.
Many modern philosophers of mind adopt either a reductive or non-reductive physicalist position, maintaining in their different ways that the mind is not something separate from the body.
Other philosophers, however, adopt a non-physicalist position which challenges the notion that the mind is a purely physical construct.
Using the concept of disembodiment, Lakoff supports the physicalist approach to the afterlife.