The Fruits of Phenomenalism: A Comment on Michael Pelczar's Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience.
Michael Pelczar's book is a clear and well written defense of the titular idea, according to which material reality is constituted by possibilities for experience. I will urge that phenomenalism faces a demarcation problem concerning how to distinguish those possible experiences that constitute mate...
| Published in: | Philosophia Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 451 - 466 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2025
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| Summary: | Michael Pelczar's book is a clear and well written defense of the titular idea, according to which material reality is constituted by possibilities for experience. I will urge that phenomenalism faces a demarcation problem concerning how to distinguish those possible experiences that constitute material objects from those that do not. I will then argue that Pelczar has not yet provided the resources to solve this demarcation problem. |
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