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Abdollahi S, Nasiri M. Murphy’s Holistic Physicalism on Mind Problem. jpt 2023; 3 (1) :73-87
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1- Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, Farabi Campus, Tehran University, Mashhad, Iran
2- Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, Farabi Campus, Tehran University, Qom, Iran
2- Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Theology, Farabi Campus, Tehran University, Qom, Iran
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Based on the interaction between science and religion, Nancy Murphy turns to a special version of non-transitive physicalism that uses empirical science, physicalism, and the Bible to formulate her holistic physicalism; A middle position between essential dualism and illusionism that defines humans as spiritual beings and hides the problem of the mind within it. Murphy brings the soul into holistic physicalism with his theological assumptions and not with scientific evidence and philosophical arguments. The distinguishing feature of non-transmission physicalism from transmission physicalism is the attention to the explanatory gap in the issue of "supervenience". Holistic physicalism has not filled this gap and has only changed the form of the problem from explaining the relationship between human parts to explaining the relationship between human dimensions. Therefore, combining the universal and weak perceptions of supervenience, along with the positive and negative teachings of holistic physicalism, that is, the use of pure holistic physicalism and avoiding introducing theological presuppositions in a philosophical theory, can be used to solve the problem.
Keywords: Nancey Murphy, Holism, Holistic Physicalism, Non-Reductive Physicalism, Mind Problem, Supervenience, Explanatory Gap
Article Type: Original Research |
Subject:
Philosophy of Mind (Analytical)
Received: 2022/10/23 | Accepted: 2023/03/4 | Published: 2023/03/10
Received: 2022/10/23 | Accepted: 2023/03/4 | Published: 2023/03/10
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