Name: The Multiple Realization Book (en Inglés)
Price: 115.00 USD
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Author: Polger, Thomas W. ; Shapiro, Lawrence A.
ISBN: 9780198732891

portada The Multiple Realization Book (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Thomas W. Polger

Lawrence A. Shapiro

Editorial

Oxford University Press, USA

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.8 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9780198732891

Categorías

Estudios cognitivos
Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología
Epistemología y teoría del conocimiento

The Multiple Realization Book (en Inglés)

Thomas W. Polger (Autor) · Lawrence A. Shapiro (Autor) · Oxford University Press, USA · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "The Multiple Realization Book (en Inglés)"

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 multiple realization serves as a starting point to a series of philosophically sophisticated and empirically informed arguments that cast doubt on the generality of multiple realization in the cognitive sciences. In the course of making their case, they respond to classic defenses of multiple realization that Jerry Fodor, Ned Block, and other prominent philosophers of psychology have offered. Polger and Shapiro conclude that the identity theory, once left for dead, remains a viable theory of mind--one that, when suitably framed, enjoysthe benefits typically thought to accrue only to theories of mind that presuppose the truth of multiple realization. As Polger and Shapiro see matters, mind-brain identities have played an important role in the growth and achievements of the cognitive sciences, and they see little prospect--or need--for multiple realization in an empirically-based theory of mind. This leads Polger and Shapiro to offer an alternative framework for understanding explanations in the cognitive sciences, as well as in chemistry, biology, and other non-basic sciences.