Why physicalism is FALSE

Here I interview Brian Cutter in person to talk about arguments against physicalism. Do they work? Like the show? Help it grow! Consider becoming a patron (thanks!): https://www.patreon.com/majestyofreason If you wanna make a one-time donation or tip (thanks!): https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/josephcschmid OUTLINE 0:00 Intro 0:15 Physicalism 3:10 Non-physicalism 5:50 Many-subjects argument 30:20 Sensory awareness arguments 36:31 Conceivability arguments 51:48 Inconceivability argument 56:58 Knowledge argument 1:08:07 Explanatory gap arguments 1:12:51 Arguments from personal identity 1:20:07 Mereological nihilism argument 1:28:38 Just too different! 1:32:07 Other arguments 1:33:06 The best argument against dualism? 1:46:17 Conclusion RESOURCES (1) Cutter, "The Many-Subjects Argument against Physicalism", https://philpapers.org/rec/CUTTMA-5 (2) Cutter, "Three Roads from Sensory Awareness to Dualism", https://philpapers.org/rec/CUTTRF (3) Cutter, "The Inconceivability Argument", https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/2268/ (4) Cutter, "The modal argument improved", https://philpapers.org/rec/CUTTMA-4 (5) Cutter & Crummett, "Psychophysical Harmony: A New Argument for Theism", https://philarchive.org/archive/CUTPHA (6) My other live interview with Brian Cutter: https://youtu.be/1oEp_UVCm8M?si=oE-mED-EiO-jtBrd (7) Cutter's PhilPeople profile with his papers: https://philpeople.org/profiles/brian-cutter (8) Bailey and Rasmussen, "A new puppet puzzle", https://andrewmbailey.com/PuppetPuzzle.pdf (9) Rasmussen, "Building Thoughts From Dust: A Cantorian Puzzle", https://joshualrasmussen.com/articles/building-thoughts-from-dust.pdf (10) Rasmussen and Bailey, "How to Build a Thought", https://andrewmbailey.com/HowToBuild.pdf (11) Rasmussen's popular explanation of the counting argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw7ynh8w-tU (12) Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism (2018): https://www.amazon.com/Blackwell-Companion-Substance-Companions-Philosophy/dp/1119375266 (13) The Waning of Materialism (2010): https://academic.oup.com/book/12724 (14) Chalmers, "The Conscious Mind", https://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/teaching/ph103/pdf/Chalmers_The_Conscious_Mind.pdf (15) Searle, "Mind: A Brief Introduction", https://coehuman.uodiyala.edu.iq/uploads/Coehuman%20library%20pdf/English%20library%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A/linguistics/SEARLE,%20John%20-%20Mind%20A%20Brief%20Introduction.pdf (16) My Springer book: (a) https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Inertia-Classical-Theistic-Proofs/dp/3031193148/ (b) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19313-2 THE USUAL... Follow the Majesty of Reason podcast! https://open.spotify.com/show/4Nda5uNcGselvKphtKSKvH Join the Discord and chat all things philosophy! https://dsc.gg/majestyofreason My website: https://josephschmid.com My PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/joseph-schmid