Why Believe Physicalism?

This video outlines some of the arguments in favour of physicalism. I offer private tutoring in philosophy. For details please email me: [email protected] Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kanebaker91 Donate to my PayPal: https://paypal.me/kanebaker91 My Discord: https://discord.gg/RUjwFdDDtK 0:00 - Introduction 3:18 - The explanatory argument 14:11 - Causal closure 31:01 - Simplicity 37:47 - Methodological naturalism -- Melnyk, Andrew. (1994). "Being a physicalist: How and (more importantly) why." Philosophical Studies 74(2): 221-241. -- Papineau, David. (2001). "The rise of physicalism." In Physicalism and its Discontents, eds. Carl Gillett and Barry Loewer: 3-36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -- Russell, Bertrand. (1913). "On the notion of cause." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 13: 1-26. -- Norton, John. (2003). "Causation as folk science." Philosophers' Imprint 3(4): 1-22. -- Seager, William. (2014). "Why physicalism?" Mind and Matter 12(2): 143-195.