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Sensations: A Defense of Type Materialism

By Christopher S. Hill (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) This is a book about sensory states and their apparent characteristics. It confronts a whole series of metaphysical and epistemological questions and presents an argument for type materialism: the view that sensory states are identical with the neural states with which they are correlated. According to type materialism, … Continued