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- Title
The Realization of Qualia, Persons, and Artifacts.
- Authors
White, Ben
- Abstract
Abstract: This article argues that standard causal and functionalist definitions of realization fail to account for the realization of entities that cannot be individuated in causal or functional terms. By modifying such definitions to require that realizers also logically suffice for any historical properties of the entities they realize, one can provide for the realization of entities whose resistance to causal/functional individuation stems from their possession of individuative historical properties. But if qualia cannot be causally or functionally individuated, then qualia can be physically realized only if the thesis that all things are physical or physically realized is insufficient for physicalism.
- Subjects
QUALIA; REALISM; PHILOSOPHY of mind; THEORY of knowledge; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2018, Vol 99, p182
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/papq.12217