Russellian physicalism is a view on the nature of consciousness which promises to satisfy demands both traditional physicalists and non-physicalists. It does so by identifying subjective experience with physically acceptable categorical properties underlying structural dispositional described science. Though promising, faces at least two serious challenges: (i) it has been argued that science d...

Supervenience physicalism attempts to combine non-reductionism about properties with a physical determination thesis in such a way as to ensure physicalism. I argue that this attempt is unsuccessful: the specific supervenience relation in question is either strong enough to ensure reductionism, as in the case of strong supervenience, or too weak to yield physical determination, as in the case o...

in this article, the compatibility of the opinion on the impossibility of reincarnation and belief in bodily resurrection in transcendental philosophy is studied. to this end, while defining and mentioning different types of reincarnation, some impediments that caused the transcendental philosophers consider reincarnation as impossible are compiled. then it is specified, with regard to the opin...

Many philosophers use “physicalism” and “naturalism” interchangeably. In this paper, I will distinguish ontological naturalism from physicalism. While broad versions of physicalism are compatible with naturalism, naturalism doesn't have to be committed to strong versions of physical reductionism, so it cannot be defined as equivalent to it. Instead of relying on the notion of ideal physics, nat...

What sets human beings apart from animals? How does ‘‘mind’’ fit with soul? Different historical and contemporary views of the mind/soul are considered. A clinical case is used to argue that a strong dualistic position is not compatible with neuro-scientific evidence nor with the expectation of life after death found in the Abrahamic faiths. Reductive physicalism is a widely held view, but risk...