Physical Realization

ISBN: 9780199571550

出版年: 2009-10

页数: 168

定价: $ 27.12

内容简介

In Physical Realization, Sydney Shoemaker considers the question of how physicalism can be true: how can all facts about the world, including mental ones, be constituted by facts about the distribution in the world of physical properties? Physicalism requires that the mental properties of a person are 'realized in' the physical properties of that person, and that all instantiations of properties in macroscopic objects are realized in microphysical states of affairs. Shoemaker offers an account of both these sorts of realization, one which allows the realized properties to be causally efficacious. He also explores the implications of this account for a wide range of metaphysical issues, including the nature of persistence through time, the problem of material constitution, the possibility of emergent properties, and the nature of phenomenal consciousness.

作者简介

西德尼·舒梅克（1931- ），当代美国著名哲学家，任职于美国康奈尔大学。专注于心灵哲学与形而上学问题研究。代表著作有《自我知识与自我同一》（1963）、《人格同一》（与理查德·斯温伯恩合著，1984）、《同一、原因和心灵》（2003）、《物理实现》（2007）。

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