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date: '2026-01-28'
description: the slim 51.9% majority position in philpapers 2020
id: physicalism
modified: 2026-06-05 15:08:05 GMT-04:00
seealso:
  - '[[thoughts/dualism]]'
  - '[[thoughts/functionalism]]'
  - '[[thoughts/qualia]]'
  - '[[thoughts/phenomenal consciousness]]'
  - '[[thoughts/philosophical zombies]]'
  - '[[thoughts/panpsychism]]'
socials:
  sep: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/
  wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism
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  - philosophy
  - consciousness
title: physicalism
created: '2026-01-28'
published: '2026-01-28'
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51.9% in philpapers 2020. supervenience (davidson 1970). type identity \[@putnam1967psychophysical\], token identity, eliminative materialism \[@churchland1981eliminative\]. backing: causal closure. unresolved: [[thoughts/knowledge argument|mary]], [[thoughts/philosophical zombies|zombies]], levine 1983.