Dissociable realization and kind splitting

  • Carl F. Craver

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Abstract

It is a common assumption in contemporary cognitive neuroscience that discovering a putative realized kind to be dissociably realized (i.e., to be realized in each instance by two or more distinct realizers) mandates splitting that kind. Here I explore some limits on this inference using two deceptively similar examples: the dissociation of declarative and procedural memory and Ramachandran's argument that the self is an illusion.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)960-971
Number of pages12
JournalPhilosophy of Science
Volume71
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2004

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