physicalism

words I mean something completely different from what many physicalists

There are also representational forms of information such as languages and road signs that, according to the physicalists, don't technically count as being information, a point we'll return to shortly.

Understanding the general form of the mind-brain relationship as one between an experience and the content of an experience, the idealist perspective distinguishes itself sharply from that of the physicalist, for it invokes a distinction to which physicalists from the very nature of their position tend to be blind.

One can therefore be a nonmaterialist and a physicalist. In fact, I would say that most physicists are nonmaterialist physicalists (could a materialist coherently embrace quantum physics?).

This question is discussed from three perspectives: two cognitivist ones, which both take intentionality to be reducible to a causal description but are divided over their idea of causality into physicalists and antiphysicalists, and a transcendental one, which says intentionality is irreducible and the defining mark of mental events.

(8) Despite its eminent philosophical pedigree, agent causation has often struck hard-boiled physicalists as an obscure, mystical, and incoherent idea.

Hirstein's book should not be seen as offering the last word--as he would concede, its details await further scientific development--but the provocative and systematic account it offers must be taken seriously by physicalists and their opponents alike.

The physicalists claim that there is such a bounty of cause-effect relations, i.e.

Prominent in the debate are the physicalists (i.e., people who hold the view that all phenomena can be described in terms of space) and the anti-physicalists.