Emergent materialism

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In the philosophy of mind, emergent (or emergentist) materialism asserts that the mind is an irreducible existent in some sense, albeit not in the sense of being an ontological simple, and that the study of mental phenomena is independent of other sciences (M.D. Robertson).

The view can be divided to property dualism and functionalism. The latter is today the dominant theory of mental states in the philosophy.

The other main group of materialist views in the philosophy of mind can be labeled non-emergent (or non-emergentist) materialism (M.D. Robertson), and it includes identity theory, philosophical behaviorism and eliminativism (eliminative materialism).

In philosophy in general, emergent materialism means (article still incomplete)...

See also

Emergentism, emergence, monism, materialism, physicalism, mind-body problem,

External links

• [1] M. D. Robertson: Dualism vs. Materialism: A Response to Paul Churchland