Physicalism: More Broken Than You Think | COURSE (2/7)| Dr. Bernardo Kastrup
In part 2 of Essentia Foundation’s Analytic Idealism Course, we discuss why mainstream physicalism fails on all key post-enlightenment values, such as coherence, internal consistency, parsimony and empirical adequacy. Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/EssentiaYT
00:00 Recap part 1
04:28 Mainstream physicalism
16:50 Territory out of map
19:15 Physicalism in a nutshell
20:40 Hard problem of consciousness
24:20 Evaluating mainstream physicalism
39:14 Next part
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Relevant literature:
https://constructivist.info/13/3/341.kastrup
https://sciendo.com/article/10.1515/sh-2017-0026
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244016674515
https://iai.tv/articles/matter-is-nothing-more-than-the-extrinsic-appearance-of-inner-experience-auid-1372
https://iai.tv/articles/why-materialism-is-a-dead-end-bernardo-kastrup-auid-1271
https://iai.tv/articles/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-consciousness-auid-1296
https://iai.tv/articles/the-mysterious-reappearance-of-consciousness-auid-1299
https://iai.tv/articles/consciousness-cannot-have-evolved-auid-1302
https://iai.tv/articles/every-generation-scorns-the-picture-of-reality-which-came-before-auid-1349
Links to papers substantiating the claim that recent empirical evidence contradicts mainstream physicalism will be provided in PART V. Stay tuned for that.
For Will Durant’s summary of Denis Diderot’s position on using an admittedly flawed materialism against the Church, see Chapter 5, sub-chapter VII of: Durant, W. (1926). The Story of Philosophy.
For an example of Jerry Coyne’s contradicting mainstream physicalism while trying to defend it, see: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2020/02/dim-witted-biologist-consciousness-is.html
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