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Author Shoemaker, Sydney

Title Physical realization / Sydney Shoemaker
Published Oxford : Clarendon, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 151 pages)
Contents Property realization -- Microrealization -- Functional properties, emergent properties, and phony properties -- Metaphysical applications -- Realization of qualia -- Appendix : the causal theory of properties
Summary How can physicalism be true? How can all facts about the world be constituted by facts about the distribution in the world of physical properties? Shoemaker's answer to this question involves showing how the mental properties of a person can be 'realised' in the physical properties of that person
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Realism.
Materialism.
Logical positivism.
Causation.
Philosophy of mind.
materialism (philosophical movement)
Causation
Logical positivism
Materialism
Philosophy of mind
Realism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191706738
0191706736