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Shoemaker’s Analysis of Realization: A Review

Sydney Shoemaker has been arguing for more than a decade for an account of the mind-body problem in which the notion of realization takes centre stage. His aim is to provide a notion of realization that is consistent with the multiple realizability of mental properties or events, and which explains: (i) how the physical grounds the mental; and (ii) why the causal work of mental events is not screened off by that of physical events. Shoemaker’s proposal consists of individuating properties in terms of causal powers, and defining realization as a relation of inclusion between sets of causal powers. Thus, as the causal powers that define a mental property are a subset of the causal powers that characterize a physical property, it can be said that physical properties realize mental properties. In this paper we examine the physicalist credentials of Shoemaker’s mind-body theory in relation to three important issues: the direction of the relation of dependence that the theory is committed to; the possibility of mental properties existing without being anchored by physical properties; and the compatibility of the theory with the causal closure of the physical world. We argue that Shoemaker’s theory is problematic in all three respects. After that we consider whether the theory should count as a mind-body theory at all, given that it seems to be committed to a distorted view of mental propertie

Research leading to this work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, research grants FFI2012-37354, FFI2014-52196-P and Consolider-Ingenio Project CSD2009-00056.

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Director: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Espanya)
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Espanya)
Autor: Pineda Oliva, David
Vicente, Agustín
Data: 1 gener 2017
Resum: Sydney Shoemaker has been arguing for more than a decade for an account of the mind-body problem in which the notion of realization takes centre stage. His aim is to provide a notion of realization that is consistent with the multiple realizability of mental properties or events, and which explains: (i) how the physical grounds the mental; and (ii) why the causal work of mental events is not screened off by that of physical events. Shoemaker’s proposal consists of individuating properties in terms of causal powers, and defining realization as a relation of inclusion between sets of causal powers. Thus, as the causal powers that define a mental property are a subset of the causal powers that characterize a physical property, it can be said that physical properties realize mental properties. In this paper we examine the physicalist credentials of Shoemaker’s mind-body theory in relation to three important issues: the direction of the relation of dependence that the theory is committed to; the possibility of mental properties existing without being anchored by physical properties; and the compatibility of the theory with the causal closure of the physical world. We argue that Shoemaker’s theory is problematic in all three respects. After that we consider whether the theory should count as a mind-body theory at all, given that it seems to be committed to a distorted view of mental propertie
Research leading to this work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, research grants FFI2012-37354, FFI2014-52196-P and Consolider-Ingenio Project CSD2009-00056.
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Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12365
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Wiley
Col·lecció: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/phpr.12251
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0031-8205
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/1933-1592
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//FFI2012-37354/ES/EXPLICACION Y REPRESENTACION EN LAS CIENCIAS: ANALISIS MONISTAS Y PLURALISTAS/
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//CSD2009-00056/ES/Pensamientos y Hechos en Perspectiva/
Drets: Tots els drets reservats
Matèria: Filosofia de la ment
Philosophy of mind
Materialisme
Materialism
Realisme
Realism
Títol: Shoemaker’s Analysis of Realization: A Review
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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