Swinburne: physicalism doesn't face the data

‘The trouble with physicalism,’ Swinburne told me, ‘is that it doesn’t face the data, and the data first of all is the mental life. We have thoughts and feelings and so on and the occurrence of these does not entail the occurrence of goings on in the brain or conversely.’ The conclusion is that a physical account of the world is not a complete account of the world. Therefore, there must be more to the world than the physical.

Saved 23 April 2015

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