British philosopher who has developed an influential defense of physicalism about mind and a broadly naturalistic philosophy of science.
Thinking About Consciousness: the phenomenal concept strategy — physicalism is compatible with explanatory gap intuitions because phenomenal concepts are cognitively isolated from physical concepts. Philosophical Naturalism: methodological continuity between philosophy and science. The Causal Closure Argument for physicalism.
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