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Consciousness regained? Philosophical arguments for and against reductive physicalism

Thomas Sturm1

  • 1Dept of Philosophy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. tsturm@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
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