Physicalism and the Mind by Robert Francescotti

Author:Robert Francescotti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

10Or, as Pettit puts it, “[e]verything in the empirical world is composed in some way—composed without remainder—out of (subatomic) entities of the kind that microphysics posits, or it is itself uncomposed and microphysical” (1993, p. 215).

11Hellman and Thompson add to their Principle of Physical Exhaustion a commitment to truth-determination: “If one kind or realm of facts determines another, then, at a minimum, the truth values of sentences expressing facts in the latter realm cannot vary without variance of the truth values of sentences expressing facts of the former kind” (1975, p. 558). They formulate this basic idea with what they call their “Principles of Physical Determination” (1975, Sect. 2.1), which capture the sort of necessitation that supervenience theses aim to express. So, they propose, “[t]he physicalism that appears plausible has two components: ontological physicalism—the Principle of Physical Exhaustion—and Physical Determinationism” (p. 561).

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