| Contrary to what your consult implies in his response, I am not a vitalist, a reductionist, or a physicalist. |
| However, those who reject a physicalist ontology of consciousness must find ways of modeling it as a nonphysical aspect of reality. |
| Epicurus was a thoroughgoing physicalist in his philosophy of mind. |
| For all that the argument from charity shows, when it comes to disputes like that between an animist and a physicalist, relativism could be the right view. |
| Rationalizing hermeneutics of myth became even more popular under the Roman Empire, thanks to the physicalist theories of Stoic and Epicurean philosophy. |
