Reductive materialism
Stephen Hicks here introduces the reductive materialist view of the mind-body relation. This is from Part 4 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course.
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Our nation is in a postmodern stupor, and too many of us have trouble distinguishing thesis from antithesis. We have come to the point where we communicate (impart) our ignorance to one another in double-talk and other manifestations of confusion. How else have we gotten to the place where cults of personality and empty rhetoric rule our politics?