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What does physicalism mean?

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  1. (philosophy) A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things.
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Where are we if we take the view that physicalism cannot account for the intentionality of mental items?
Another response by Heidegger to the metaphysics of physicalism is his emphasis on the centrality of mood to our everyday understanding of the world.
That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism.
But then, according to token physicalism, there must be some physical object for it to be identical with.
Amongst mainstream philosophers, discontent with physicalism led to a modest revival of property dualism in the last decade of the twentieth century.
So if the zombie hypothesis is correct, physicalism is false.

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