23 - David Albert & Justin Clarke-Doane: Absolute Space & Physicalism vs. Ethics
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Exploring Supervenience and Physicalism
This chapter investigates the philosophical concept of supervenience, focusing on its implications for physicalism and the nature of reality. The discussion navigates complex ideas about the reducibility of various disciplines to physical facts, and challenges the assertion that 'everything is physical' by examining the status of ethical and mathematical truths. Additionally, it highlights the historical evolution of physics and the importance of expanding the definition of the physical world to include non-material entities, such as fields.
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