Physicalism, substance, and the shifting locus of fundamentality.

摘要

I demonstrate two main theses. First, the physicalist and Aristotelian worldviews are deeply incompatible, particularly in regards to the locus of fundamentality: where the fundamental level of reality is taken to be, which entities, processes, and facts are understood as fundamental, and, as a corollary, which are taken to be derivative or unreal. Second, the physicalist is committed to eliminativism about what the Aristotelian thinks is the fundamental basis of reality. And as these Aristotelian theses largely comport with a common-sense ontology, I thereby show that physicalism is far more revisionary than many have suspected.