Buchanan concluded by encouraging the commission to focus on these concrete risks and benefits and not get bogged down with more intrinsic unanswerable questions about human nature, the meaning of life, or the implications of biological materialism for human moral agency.
There he seems to have exchanged dialectical materialism for materialism straight up.
That against-the-grain attitude; disdain for materialism, emptiness and politics as usual; that Jesuit-Buddhist outlook.
Since the 1970s, Barbie has been criticized for materialism (amassing cars, houses, and clothes) and unrealistic body proportions.
Token-physicalism operates as a demarcation criterion for materialism.
But, surely, an argument for materialism provides no support for the claim that possible worlds exist.
The argument for materialism from proprioceptive awareness, due to Brewer (1995), is as follows.
For materialism implies that you are an ens per alio, a logical construction.
But for materialism, nothing bridges the spatio-temporal gap between the body that perishes and that body resurrected.
But let me put the case for materialism.
