@article {Worley:October 2006:0031-8116:101, author = "Worley, Sara", title = "Physicalism and the Via Negativa", journal = "Philosophical Studies", volume = "131", year = "October 2006", abstract = "Some philosophers have suggested that, instead of attempting to arrive at a satisfactory definition of the physical, we should adopt the `via negativa.' That is, we should take the notion of the mental as fundamental, and define the physical in contrast, as the non-mental. I defend a variant of this approach, based on some information about how children form concepts. I suggest we are hard-wired to form a concept of intentional agency from a very young age, and so there's some reason to believe that our concept of the physical does include, as part of its content, a contrast with the mental.", pages = "101-126(26)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/phil/2006/00000131/00000001/00005985" doi = "doi:10.1007/s11098-005-5985-z" }