物理主义是形而上学吗?

Is Physicalism Metaphysics?

物理主义作为自然主义的一种典型形态,它断言一切事物都是物理事物,或者都随附于物理事物。对这一断言的理解涉及关系问题、完全性问题和条件问题,而且面临"磨坊论证"的严峻挑战。尽管当今学界普遍认为物理主义是一种形而上学,但本文作者认为物理主义没有资格被称为形而上学。

As a typical form of naturalism, physicalism argues that everything is or supervenes on physical things. This statement includes the relation-question, the completeness-question, and the condition-question. Leibniz’s 'mill argument' displays the consciousness problem which gives physicalism a deadly blow. Although physicalism has been seen as a kind of metaphysics, this paper argues that it is not any metaphysics, that is, it is not the general metaphysics, nor the special metaphysics.