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Torin Alter, "The Matter of Consciousness: From the Knowledge Argument to Russellian Monism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Philosophy

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The Metaphysical Necessity of the Physicalist View

Any duplicate, you know, minimal physical duplicate of our world will be a mental duplicate and an experiential duplicate as well. Whatever it's that she learns is not metaphysically necessitated by what she knows before she leaves the room. So I think that there is a metaphysical, there's commitment to this sort of modal view.

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