103. A Post to House my 2021 AAP Keynote About Materialism

In July 2021 I gave a remote keynote lecture at the Australasian Association of Philosophy‘s annual conference.

The talk was called “The Development and Plausibility of Materialism.” It looked at the recent history of materialist (/physicalist) philosophies, from 1950 or so to the present, and spent some time on developments at the University of Sydney. At the end of the talk I move from the history of these ideas to a consideration of why it’s reasonable to believe a view of this kind.

I was an...