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Duncan, Steven M

 
9781539353973: Material Things: An Alternative to Physicalism

Synopsis

Most contemporary analytic metaphysicians are committed, either explicitly or by implication, to the thesis that ordinary material things, such as trees, houses, mountains, the bodies of persons, their brains, etc., do not exist. Tracing this surprising thesis to a commitment to Galilean Physicalism - physicalism about the external world - this study defends the common sense ontology - an ontology of material things.

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À propos de l'auteur

Steven M. Duncan (1954-) earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1987. He taught as a TA and Adjunct philosophy instructor at various colleges and universities from 1976-2015, when he retired from Bellevue College. He is author of five books, including The Proof of the External World (2007) and How Free Will Works (2011), both published by Wipf and Stock. In addition, he has uploaded over fifty papers to the Philpapers website. He and his wife Corazon reside in Tukwila, Washington.

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