Materialism, Minimal Emergentism, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
The Waning of Materialism March 25, 2010 Terry Horgan
AbstractThis chapter formulates and motivates the current favored articulation of the metaphysical doctrine of materialism. It describes an alternative metaphysical position called minimal emergentism, which has two versions; and then contrasts it with stronger kinds of emergentism. Minimal emergentism posits certain inter-level necessitation relations — either nomically necessary connections,...