In most places I’ve seen where the physicalism was attacked or defended, it was in the terms of the supervenience (i.e. that metaphysically there is no difference without physical difference). Be it when physicalism is being attacked, or really defended by the physicalists. E.g. in relation to the zombie argument, or to the Jackson’s knowledge argument.
But if you want to use “physicalism” synonymous with “naturalism”, I can’t really stop you. I guess we should then distinguish the discussions about “physicalism” in one sense, and “physicalism” in another sense. :) But anyway, zombie argument is not supposed to be against what you describe as “physicalism”, so to argue that zombie argument fails to give arguments against it, is to miss its point.
Anyway, it seems to me that what you are describing is empiricism of Quinean type, and not physicalism.
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In most places I’ve seen where the physicalism was attacked or defended, it was in the terms of the supervenience (i.e. that metaphysically there is no difference without physical difference). Be it when physicalism is being attacked, or really defended by the physicalists. E.g. in relation to the zombie argument, or to the Jackson’s knowledge argument.
But if you want to use “physicalism” synonymous with “naturalism”, I can’t really stop you. I guess we should then distinguish the discussions about “physicalism” in one sense, and “physicalism” in another sense. :) But anyway, zombie argument is not supposed to be against what you describe as “physicalism”, so to argue that zombie argument fails to give arguments against it, is to miss its point.
Anyway, it seems to me that what you are describing is empiricism of Quinean type, and not physicalism.