Essays about: "multiple realizability."

Found 2 essays containing the words multiple realizability..

  1. 1. The inevitability of reductionism in the mind-Body problem : Finding convergence between functionalism and Type-Identity Physicalism

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Valery Nkenguruke; [2023]
    Keywords : Physicalism; identity; reduction; functionalism; multiple realizability.;

    Abstract : Type identity theory is a theory within physicalism that maintains that types of mental states or processes are identical to types of states or processes in the brain. This would imply mental types can’t be encountered in physical structures other than the brain. READ MORE

  3. 2. Tropes and Mind: In Defense of the Trope Solution to the Problem of Mental Causation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Erik Jansson; [2013]
    Keywords : mental causation; properties; trope monism; multiple realizability; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The trope solution to the problem of mental causation combines a trope monism, i.e. that properties are tropes and all tropes are physical, with a type dualism, i.e. READ MORE