"Physicalism" (2005)

PHYSICALISM

A CONFERENCE PRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY,

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY and

THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY CENTER,

BOWLING GREEN, OHIO

APRIL 1-3, 2005

Conference Papers:

Andrew Melnyk
“Realization and the Formulation of Physicalism”

Janice Dowell
“The Physical: Empirical, Not Metaphysical”

Frank Jackson
“On Ensuring that Physicalism is not a Dual Attribute Theory in Sheep’s Clothing”

Jessica Wilson
“On Characterizing the Physical”

Gene Witmer
“How to Be a (Sort of) A Priori Physicalist”

Sara Worley “Physicalism and the ‘Via Negativa’”

Noa Latham “Ways in Which the World is Physical ”

David Chalmers “Physicalism and Necessity”

For further details,contact:

Janice Dowell

Department of Philosophy,

Bowling Green State University

janicedowell@hotmail.com