Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7551574 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 2018 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
Putnam's criticisms of the identity theory attack a straw man. Fodor's criticisms of reduction attack a straw man. Properly interpreted, Nagel offered a conception of reduction that captures everything a physicalist could want. I update Nagel, introducing the idea of overlap, and show why multiple realization poses no challenge to reduction so construed.
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