NDLI: Taking realization seriously: no cure for epiphobia

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Author	Walter, Sven
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	The realization relation that allegedly holds between mental and physical properties plays a crucial role for so-called non-reductive physicalism because it is supposed to secure both the ontological autonomy of mental properties and, despite their irreducibility, their ability to make a causal difference to the course of the causally closed physical world. For a long time however, the nature of realization has largely been ignored in the philosophy of mind until a couple of years ago authors like Carl Gillett, Derk Pereboom, or Sydney Shoemaker proposed accounts according to which realization is understood against the background of the so-called ‘causal theory of properties’. At least partially, the hope was to solve the problem of mental causation, in particular the kind of causal exclusion reasoning made famous by Jaegwon Kim, in a way acceptable to non-reductive physicalists. The paper asks whether a proper explication of the realization relation can indeed help explain how physically realized mental properties can be causally efficacious in the causally closed physical world and argues for a negative answer: it is important for the non-reductive physicalist to understand what exactly the realization relation amounts to, but it does not solve the problem of mental causation.
Starting Page	207
Ending Page	226
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00318116
Journal	Philosophical Studies
Volume Number	151
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15730883
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-07-25
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Mental causation Realization Non-reductive physicalism Causal theory of properties Causal powers Epiphenomenalism Philosophy of Language Metaphysics Ethics Philosophy of Mind Epistemology Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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