Multiple Realization Book

by Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro

Book Overview

Since Hilary Putnam offered multiple realization as an empirical hypothesis in the 1960s, philosophical consensus has turned against the idea that mental processes could be identified with brain processes, and multiple realization has become the keystone of the 'antireductive consensus' across philosophy of science broadly. Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro offer the first book-length investigation of multiple realization. Their analysis of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198732899
• ISBN13: 9780198732891
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.6"