Department of Philosophy - University of Missouri-Columbia

  Andrew Melnyk

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Andrew Melnyk

Professor and Chair of the Department
D.Phil., Oxford University

MelnykA@missouri.edu
439 Strickland Hall
573-882-1278

vita (Word)

Research areas
philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science

Selected publications

  • A Physicalist Manifesto: Thoroughly Modern Materialism (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
  • "Physicalism Unfalsified: Chalmers' Inconclusive Conceivability Argument", in Carl Gillett and Barry Loewer (eds.) Physicalism and Its Discontents (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
  • "How to Keep the 'Physical' in Physicalism," Journal of Philosophy XCIV, Dec. 1997
  • "Two Cheers for Reductionism: Or, the Dim Prospects for Non-reductive Materialism," Philosophy of Science 62, Sept. 1995
  • "On the Metaphysical Utility of Claims of Global Supervenience," Philosophical Studies 87, 1997