Article ID: CBB000410808

Testing Multiple Realizability: A Discussion of Bechtel and Mundale (2002)

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Bechtel and Mundale (1999) argue that multiple realizability is not plausible. They point out that neuroscientists assume that psychological traits are realized similarly in homologous brain structures and contend that a biological aspect of the brain that is relevant to neuropsychological state individuation provides evidence against multiple realizability. I argue that Bechtel and Mundale adduce the wrong sort of evidence against multiple realizability. Homologous traits do not provide relevant evidence. It is homoplasious traits of brains that can provide evidence for or against multiple realizability.

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Authors & Contributors
Wade, Nicholas J.
Archibald, J. David
Brigandt, Ingo
Changeux, Jean Pierre
Deutsch, Jean
Ebach, Malte C.
Journals
Philosophy of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Archives of Natural History
Comptes Rendus Biologies
Gesnerus
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Publishers
University of Chicago
Belknap/Harvard
John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Springer-Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Pepperdine University
Concepts
Neurophysiology
Philosophy of science
Homology (biology)
Physiological psychology
Neurosciences
Evolution
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Heidegger, Martin
Descartes, René
Freud, Sigmund
Gegenbaur, Carl
Lyell, Charles
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
16th century
17th century
18th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
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