Natural Properties and the Special Sciences: Nonreductive Physicalism without Levels of Reality or Multiple Realizability

[...] the notion of a natural property that is relevant to the debate between RP and NRP is one according to which the naturalness of a properly is relative to some scientific discipline or other. [...] I argue that a little-noticed phenomenon I call multiple determinativity (in which single physica...

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Published in:The Monist 2011-04, Vol.94 (2), p.244-266
Main Author: Haug, Matthew C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute pain
Analysis
Cognitive psychology
Debates
Instantiation
Kim, Jaegwon
Materialism
Metaphysics
Naturalness
Nonreductive physicalism
Philosophers
Philosophical realism
Physical properties
Predicates
Psychology
Reality
Realizability
Science
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Summary:[...] the notion of a natural property that is relevant to the debate between RP and NRP is one according to which the naturalness of a properly is relative to some scientific discipline or other. [...] I argue that a little-noticed phenomenon I call multiple determinativity (in which single physical property simultaneously realizes different kinds of special science properties) shows that this response, and the account of natural properties it is based on, remains grounded in the objective (but not necessarily layered) causal structure of the world. 1.\n In short, physical properties sometimes conflate distinct causal patterns. 6.
ISSN:0026-9662
2153-3601
DOI:10.5840/monist201194212