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What does physicalism mean?

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  1. (philosophy) A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things.
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That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism.
Amongst mainstream philosophers, discontent with physicalism led to a modest revival of property dualism in the last decade of the twentieth century.
The most common opposing view has been materialism or physicalism, a philosophical position maintaining that everything, including mind, is essentially physical.
Another response by Heidegger to the metaphysics of physicalism is his emphasis on the centrality of mood to our everyday understanding of the world.
According to this argument, physicalism requires that all phenomena be susceptible in principle of a physicalistic explanation.
To use the language of supervenience, just as the global features of the picture supervene on the dots, so too everything supervenes on the physical, if physicalism is true.

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