Manifestation and Unrestricted Dispositional Monism

Livanios, Vassilis

doi:10.1007/s12136-021-00476-y

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“…In fact, there are good reasons to think that it must encompass at least all physical properties (see Williams, 2010Williams, , 2019. Clearly, the resulting structure will be enormously complex, even if exactly how complex will in part depend on how fine-grained we think the manifestations of powers are (see Giannini, 2021;Livanios, 2022). Now, it should be evident why the conjunction of (Full Transparency) and (Pure Structure) is implausible.…”

Section: The Problem: I Can't See For Milesmentioning

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Relational Troubles Structuralist Worries for an Epistemology of Powers-Based Modality

Giannini

Schoonen

2022

The Philosophical Quarterly

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Dispositionalism is the theory of modality that grounds all modal truths in powers: all metaphysically possible and necessary truths are to be explained by pointing to some actual power, or absence thereof. One of the main reasons to endorse dispositionalism is that it promises to deliver an especially desirable epistemology of modality. However, so far this issue has not be fully investigated with the care it is due. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap. We will cast some doubts on whether the dispositionalist really is in a better position to explain our modal knowledge. In fact, we argue that there is a tension between some core tenets of a powers metaphysics and the very features that make dispositionalism the ideal backdrop for a desirable epistemology of modality. We conclude that this leaves dispositionalists who want to deliver the promised epistemology with a hard, currently unfulfilled, task.

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Section: The Problem: I Can't See For Milesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relational Troubles Structuralist Worries for an Epistemology of Powers-Based Modality

Giannini

Schoonen

2022

The Philosophical Quarterly

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The Physical Signature of Computation

Anderson,

Piccinini

2024

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This book articulates and defends the robust mapping account—the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive account of computational implementation to date. Drawing in part from recent results in physical information theory, it argues that mapping accounts of implementation can be made adequate by incorporating appropriate physical constraints. According to the robust mapping account, the key constraint on mappings from physical to computational states—the key for establishing that a computation is physically implemented—is physical-computational equivalence: evolving physical states bear neither more nor less information about the evolving computation than do the computational states they map onto. When this highly nontrivial constraint is satisfied, among others that are spelled out as part of the account, a physical system can be said to implement a computation in a robust sense, which means that the system bears the physical signature of that computation. The book applies this robust mapping account to important questions in physical foundations of computation and cognitive science, including the alleged indeterminacy of computation, pancomputationalism, and the computational theory of mind. It shows that physical computation is determinate, nontrivial versions of pancomputationalism fail, and cognition involves computation only insofar as neurocognitive systems bear the physical signature of specific computations. It also argues that both consciousness and physics outstrip computation.

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Anderson,

Piccinini

2024

The Physical Signature of Computation

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Manifestation and Unrestricted Dispositional Monism

Cited by 16 publications

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Relational Troubles Structuralist Worries for an Epistemology of Powers-Based Modality

Relational Troubles Structuralist Worries for an Epistemology of Powers-Based Modality

The Physical Signature of Computation

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