You can doubt just about anything. But there's one thing you can know for sure: you are having thoughts right now.

Thus, if materialism were true, Wright and other materialists who insist the mind and the soul are nothing but mere products of the brain cannot trust these thoughts. Their thoughts about the ...

This belief has found favour with most over the years, and materialism has eroded people's faith in moral and spiritual values. Today, simple living and high thinking have become a thing of the ...

The view that only the material world (matter) is truly real, and that all processes and realities observed in the universe can be explained by reducing them down to their most basic scientific ...

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This position is known as physicalism or materialism. The second view is that thoughts might stand apart from the physical world. They are not like atoms, but are an entirely distinct type of thing.