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dc.contributor.authorJalloh, Mahmoud
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-26T08:03:19Z
dc.date.available2023-12-26T08:03:19Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationTheoria 38(2) : 205-223 (2023)
dc.identifier.issn0495-4548
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/63529
dc.description.abstractI provide an account of the physical appropriate to the task of the physicalist while remaining faithful to the usage of “physical” natural to physicists. Physicalism is the thesis that everything in the world is physical, or reducible to the physical. I presuppose that some version of this position is a live epistemic possibility. The physicalist is confronted with Hempel’s dilemma: that physicalism is either false or contentless. The proposed account of the physical avoids both horns and generalizes a recent proposal by Vicente (2011). My account defines physicalism as the thesis that there are no objects that can-not be described by physical quantities. A dimensional account of physical quantities is given: quantities are determined by measurement procedures.; Presento una caracterización de lo físico que resulta adecuada para el fisicalismo y se mantiene fiel al uso de “físico” entre los físicos. El fisicalismo es la tesis de que todo en el mundo es físico, o reducible a lo físico. Presupongo que alguna versión de esta postura es una posibilidad epistémica abierta. El fisicalista se enfrenta al dilema de Hempel: o bien el fisicalismo es falso o bien carece de contenido. Mi propuesta evita este dilema y generaliza una contribución reciente de Vicente (2011). Mi propuesta define el fisicalismo como la tesis de que no hay objetos que no puedan ser descritos por cantidades físicas. Se ofrece asimismo una caracterización dimensional de las cantidades físicas: son cantidades determinadas por procedimientos de medida.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherServicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.titleThe nature of the physical and the meaning of physicalism
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.rights.holder© 2023 UPV/EHU Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
dc.identifier.doi10.1387/theoria.24836


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