Thomas Polger and Lawrence Shapiro, The Multiple Realization Book (OUP, 2016)In our first post we explained how we came to write The Multiple Realization Book, we articulated our general app… Read More
Thanks to Dan Burnston and Nick Byrd for this opportunity to introduce Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition (OUP 2020). This book is the culmination of my main resear… Read More
There’s no overestimating the significance of the multiple realization thesis in the past fifty years of theorizing about the mind’s relationship to the brain. The idea behind th… Read More
This is the third post in a series discussing some key ideas from Why Free Will is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019). Many thanks to John Schwenkler and the Brains Blog fo… Read More
In the previous post, I defended a restricted form of modal skepticism and I concluded that many traditional philosophical issues could not be resolved and should be set aside. One may wonde… Read More
The term "supervenience" gained prominence in the twentieth century when it was suggested that moral properties supervene on natural properties and that our mental characteristics supervene… Read More
Thomas Polger and Lawrence Shapiro, The Multiple Realization Book (OUP, 2016)According to the approach we described in our previous posts, examples of multiple realization satisfy four crite… Read More