The counter-revolution over multiple realization: Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro: The multiple realization book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, xiv+258pp, $35 PB [Book Review]

Metascience 26 (2):229-232 (2017)
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This is a largely expository review of Thomas Polger’s and Laurence Shapiro’s The Multiple Realization Book (Oxford Press 2016).

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Multiple realizability.John Bickle - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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