什么是物理主义?

What is Physicalism?

作为唯物主义的当代发展,物理主义是当前哲学界最为盛行的本体论学说。然而,物理主义的确切内涵却因"物理的"难以界定而暧昧不明。本文认为,要给出一个关于物理主义的清晰、明确的定义,就不能将物理主义视为一个具有真值的本体论学说,而应将其当作一个用以确立合适的本体论的方法论原则。

As the contemporary development of materialism, physicalism is the most popular ontology in recent philosophical circle. However, the exact meaning of physicalism is ambiguous for the difficulty of defining ＂the physical＂. This paper argues that, to give a distinct and explicit definition of physicalism, we cannot think of physicalism as a kind of ontology with truth value, but as a methodology that used to establish appropriate ontology.