Some concerns with Polger and Shapiro’s view

Philosophical Psychology 31 (3):419-430 (2018)
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This paper provides some responses to Tom Polger and Larry Shapiro’s The Multiple Realization Book (2016). I first provide a description of the authors’ framework for thinking about multiple realization and the conditions they claim this involves. I explain what I think they get right and what they get wrong with this framework. After this, I then consider a few examples of multiple realization they discuss and the interpretations they offer. While I am sympathetic to several things they say about multiple realization, I also think there are some questions that have yet to be answered.

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Functional explanation in context.Mark Couch - 2009 - Philosophy of Science 76 (2):253-269.

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