The mystery of the physical and the matter of qualities

Midwest Studies in Philosophy 22 (1):75–99 (1998)
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For some fifty years now, nearly all work in mainstream analytic philosophy has made no serious attempt to understand the _nature of_ _physical reality,_ even though most analytic philosophers take this to be all of reality, or nearly all. While we've worried much about the nature of our own experiences and thoughts and languages, we've worried little about the nature of the vast physical world that, as we ourselves believe, has them all as only a small part

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Introduction.David Lewis - 1986 - In Philosophical Papers, Volume II. New York, US: Oxford University Press.

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