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In the philosophy of mind, multiple realizability is the thesis that the same mental property, state, or event can be implemented by different physical properties, states, or events. Philosophers of mind have used multiple realizability to argue that mental states are not the same as — and cannot be reduced to — physical states.
Tom Polger is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati in the United States. [1] His research focuses on naturalistic accounts of the metaphysics of mind. Polger is a past president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology .
This article has multiple issues. ... if mental property M is realized in a system at time t in virtue of physical realization ... Philosophy of Science. 1989 ...
An extension of the quantum theory goes beyond even this; it paints a picture in which solid matter dissolves away, to be replaced by weird excitations and vibrations of invisible field energy. Quantum physics undermines materialism because it reveals that matter has far less "substance" than we might believe.
"Understanding the Dimensions of Realization," with Thomas Polger, The Journal of Philosophy 105: 213-222, 2008. “Making Sense of Mirror Neurons,” forthcoming in Synthese. “Lessons from Causal Exclusion,” forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. “How to Test for Multiple Realization,” forthcoming in Philosophy of ...
Elliott Sober's "Multiple realization arguments against reductionism" [20] reflects a shift towards Rosenberg's critique of anti-reductionist arguments of Putnam's and Fodor's. Sober has also challenged Rosenberg's view that the principle of natural selection is the only biological law. [21]
Philosophical realism—usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters— is the view that a certain kind of thing (ranging widely from abstract objects like numbers to moral statements to the physical world itself) has mind-independent existence, i.e. that it exists even in the absence of any mind perceiving it or that its existence is not just a ...
In mathematical logic, realizability is a collection of methods in proof theory used to study constructive proofs and extract additional information from them. [1] Formulas from a formal theory are "realized" by objects, known as "realizers", in a way that knowledge of the realizer gives knowledge about the truth of the formula.