Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Physicalism
28 Dec 2017
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Jan 19: physicalism: every object is a physical objects, (a technical sense: an object is physical if it can be given a complete description in an ideal physics. But we can make so with an intuitive sense for the purpose of this argument. : could be called materialism, he says this cant be true. First: physicalism isn"t obviously and plainly true. Consciousness might be inconsistent with physicalism god isn"t physical so not true (what about physical reps of: but: we can work with a simpler eg: numbers, these are all debatable him???) Premises: there are two odd numbers between 6 and 10, therefore, there are at least two odd numbers, therefore, there are at least two numbers, therefore, there are numbers. Abstract objects: there are physical numbers, numbers are not physical objects, therefore physicalism is fake. Pamela: clocks: (cid:884) mins between (cid:891):5(cid:890) and (cid:883)(cid:882):(cid:882)(cid:882) therefore there are minutes. We manipulate time we made clocks clocks are objects.
