One reason philosophers have addressed the metaphysics of color is its apparent relevance to the sciences concerned with color phenomena. In the light of such thinking, this paper examines a pairing of views that has received much attention: color physicalism and externalism about the content of perceptual experience. It is argued that the latter is a dubious conception of the workings of our p...

In recent years, much of the hope for the basic project of materialism, that of explaining mentality in purely physical terms, has been vested in materialist varieties of functionalism (Kim 1998, 73). 1 Instead of identifying mentality with either behavior or brain states as the failed approaches of behaviorism and physicalism do, functionalism identifies mental states as “consisting of a dispo...

suppose $g$ is a split connected‎ ‎reductive orthogonal or symplectic group over an infinite field‎ ‎$f,$ $p=mn$ is a maximal parabolic subgroup of $g,$ $frak{n}$ is‎ ‎the lie algebra of the unipotent radical $n.$ under the adjoint‎ ‎action of its stabilizer in $m,$ every maximal prehomogeneous‎ ‎subspaces of $frak{n}$ is determined‎.

Scott Sturgeon has claimed to undermine the principal argument for Physicalism, in his words, the view that “actuality is exhausted by physical reality” (Sturgeon 1998, p. 410). In noting that actuality is exhausted by physical reality, the Physicalist is not claiming that all that there is in actuality are those things identified by physics. Rather the thought is that actuality is made up of a...