Titlebook: Levels of Reality in Science and Philosophy; Re-examining the Mul Stavros Ioannidis,Gal Vishne,Orly Shenker Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if app

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Can the Flat Physicalist Tell Us What a Physical Entity Is?,it has a close relation to the physical sciences, expressed by the physicalist claim that what exists in the world, i.e., the physical, is what physics maintains exists. This theory-based conception troubled Carl Hempel (Synthese, 45, 139–199, 1980), who in response formulated what later came to be

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How Context Can Determine the Identity of Physical Computation,nswering the question ‘What does a particular neural—or physical—system do?’ in . terms. A single physical process may often be described equally well as computing several different mathematical functions—none of which is explanatorily privileged. But at which level of analysis is the computational

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,Why Functionalism Is a Form of ‘Token-Dualism’,ics as a general theory of natural kinds. We show that all the claims mounted against type-identity physicalism in the literature don’t apply to Flat Physicalism, and moreover that this reductive theory solves many of the problems faced by the various non-reductive approaches including functionalism

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Rethinking the Unity of Science Hypothesis: Levels, Mechanisms, and Realization,in distinct levels of organization, and that sciences, theories, or models take these levels as their subject matters. . requires that these sciences, theories, or models stand in a particular kind of relationship to each other. In this paper I will examine some skeptical challenges to the idea of l

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Parsimony Arguments in Science and Metaphysics, and Their Connection with Unification, Fundamentaliname in evaluating competing metaphysical theories. Do justifications for the scientific evaluations carry over to the metaphysical? Here, I outline three “paradigms” for justifying the epistemic relevance of parsimony in science, and assess how they bear on theory evaluation in metaphysics. I conne

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Levels, Kinds and Multiple Realizability: The Importance of What Does Not Matter,planation. The notion of level on which I will focus is explanation-based—the idea is that sometimes the fine-grained details of a system do not matter or do not matter much for the explanation of certain coarse-grained features of its behavior. When this is the case, we often regard those fine-grai