“物理事项”的循否定义 --一种混合式的方案

On the Via Negativa of the“Physical”

物理主义认为一切都是“物理的”的,这是当代心灵哲学中盛行的一种形而上学。但是,“物理的”确切含义是什么?物理学理论策略和对象策略无法令人满意地刻画物理主义。有一种混合式循否方案,它不仅很好地刻画了物理主义,而且规避了现行循否策略的问题。

Physicalism,namely the thesis that everything is physical,is the most prevailing metaphysics in contemporary philosophy of mind.But what is the exact meaning of the“physical”?This paper argues that the physical theory scheme and the object scheme fail to provide a satisfactory formulation of physicalism.On the contrary,this paper proposes a hybrid version of the via negativa which suitably characterizes the“physical”and avoids the pitfalls plaguing the current via negativa scheme.