Physical realization

How can physicalism be true? How can all facts about the world be constituted by facts about the distribution in the world of physical properties? Shoemaker's answer to this question involves showing how the mental properties of a person can be 'realised' in the physical properties of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shoemaker, Sydney
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 2007, 2007
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:How can physicalism be true? How can all facts about the world be constituted by facts about the distribution in the world of physical properties? Shoemaker's answer to this question involves showing how the mental properties of a person can be 'realised' in the physical properties of that person
Physical Description:x, 151 p.
ISBN:9780191706738
0191706736