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physicalism. Like emergence, nonreductive physicalism attempts to reconcile
physicalism with the idea that the special sciences are not reducible to physics.
The account I proposed here amounts to little more than a sketch. There are still
many important questions to be answered, and many of its aspects need to be
elaborated in more detail. The arguments I used here need to be improved and
expanded; many imperfections need to be ironed out; in one word, a lot of work
remains to be done. But the broad outlines I sketched here are, I think, essentially
correct.
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