David Papineau Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: b. September 30, 1947
Birthday: September 30
Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical cause. This leaves no room for non-physical things to make a causal difference to physical effects. But it would be absurd to deny that thoughts and feelings (and population movements and economic depressions . . .) cause physical effects. So they must be physical things.
source: "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013. 
topic: Differences, Feelings, Events, Economic Depression, Thoughts And Feelings, Physical Things
