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By Galen Strawson

genuine Materialism attracts jointly papers written over two decades by means of Galen Strawson in philosophy of brain and metaphysics. Strawson specializes in 5 major parts of enquiry: [1] the character of the actual, recognition, the 'mind-body problem', and the clients for panpsychism; [2] the self, the topic of expertise, self-consciousness, and the 'narrative' self; [3] unfastened will and ethical accountability; [4] the character of concept and intentionality and their
connection with realization; [5] the matter of causation with specific connection with the philosophy of David Hume.

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