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Exclusion, subset realization, and part-whole relations
Ratio Pub Date : 2021-06-06 , DOI: 10.1111/rati.12318
Wenjun Zhang 1
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The subset realization view proposes to solve the causal exclusion problem of non-reductive mental instances by taking the mental instance as a part of its physical realizer. Many philosophers have argued that such a part-whole relation will undermine physicalist realization because parts are ontologically prior to their wholes and the subset view is thus flawed. I argue that the relation that the subset view should propose is different from the ordinary part-whole relation. What they should propose is another kind of part-whole relation under which parts are posterior to wholes. So, the subset view is not flawed in the aforementioned aspect. But discussion of the new part-whole relation reveals that the subset view is in lack of a crucial argument against the exclusion reasoning, thus cannot solve the exclusion problem. Adopting the principle of causal proportionality (a route subset realizationists sometimes take) will not help the subset view either. So, my conclusion is, the subset view is yet to find a way to solve the exclusion problem.

中文翻译:

排除、子集实现和部分-整体关系

子集实现观点提出通过将心理实例作为其物理实现者的一部分来解决非还原心理实例的因果排除问题。许多哲学家认为,这种部分-整体关系将破坏物理主义的认识,因为部分在本体论上先于整体,因此子集观点是有缺陷的。我认为子集视图应该提出的关系不同于普通的部分-整体关系。他们应该提出的是另一种部分-整体关系,在这种关系下,部分在整体之后。因此,子集视图在上述方面没有缺陷。但是对新的部分-整体关系的讨论表明,子集视图缺乏反对排除推理的关键论据,因此无法解决排除问题。采用因果比例原则(子集实现主义者有时采用的路径)也无助于子集观点。所以,我的结论是,子集视图还没有找到解决排除问题的方法。
更新日期:2021-06-06
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