The Multiple Realization Book

Thomas W. Polger, University of Cincinnati,Lawrence A. Shapiro, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thomas Polger received his PhD in philosophy from Duke University in 2000, and joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati in the same year. His previous book, Natural Minds, was a defense of the mind-brain identity theory. He is the author of numerous articles in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. Polger is also a past-president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Lawrence Shapiro received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and has been on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin since 1993. He has published numerous articles and several books on a range of topics within philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I. Whence Multiple Realization?
1. Physicalism and Multiple Realization
2. Realization and Multiple Realization
3. What is Multiple Realization?
4. Multiple Realization and Relevant Differences
Section II. The Evidence for Multiple Realization
5. Evidence for Multiple Realization: Neural Plasticity
6. Evidence for Multiple Realization: Kind Splitting and Comparative Evidence
7. The Likelihood of Multiple Realization
8. The Computationalist Argument for Multiple Realizability
Section III. After Multiple Realization
9. Putnam's Revenge
10. Causal Exclusion and the Autonomy of Psychology
Guide for Teaching and Learning
References