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- Title
Multiple Realizability, Constraints, and Identity.
- Authors
Bauer, Mark
- Abstract
Shapiro has suggested that the empirical plausibility of the multiple realizability of human-like minds is dubious, because a contrary thesis, the Mental Constraint Thesis, enjoys positive empirical evidence. The Mental Constraint Thesis states that, given the actual physical laws, there is only one way to realize a human-like mind. I will suggest, however, that the Mental Constraint Thesis is not a contrary to the empirical multiple realizability thesis relevant to psychological reduction or autonomy and, as a consequence, has no bearing on those classificatory issues.
- Subjects
REALISM; ENTITY (Philosophy); IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); PLAUSIBILITY (Logic); AUTONOMY (Philosophy); EMPIRICAL research
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2013, Vol 94, Issue 4, p446
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/papq.12008