Notes for Ontology II: Mind-Brain Identity             Objections: Slides

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C. Critical Naturalism: reality consists only of nature and natural processes.  In contrast to materialism, naturalism does not reduce life and human activity to the physicochemical processes of the "hard sciences" (physics, chemistry, biology), but it does say that all events (including "emergent" or evolutionary qualities such as human activity) can be explained fully in terms of other sciences (e.g., the social sciences: psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science).  There is no need to introduce supernatural or spiritual elements to explain existence.

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D. Idealism: Mind/Spirit and ideas are the only things that are really real.         Objections: