Original language | English |
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Journal | PHILOSOPHY |
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Accepted/In press | 31 Jul 2020 |
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Franklin_MR
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Uploaded date:01 Sep 2020
Version:Accepted author manuscript
Multiple realisation prompts the question: how is it that multiple systems all exhibit the same phenomena despite their different underlying properties? In this paper I develop a framework for addressing that question and argue that multiple realisation can be reductively explained. I illustrate this position by applying the framework to a simple example – the multiple realisation of electrical conductivity. I defend my account by addressing potential objections: contra (e.g.) Polger and Shapiro (2016), Batterman (2018), and Sober (2000), I claim that multiple realisation is commonplace, that it can be explained, but that it requires a sui generis reductive explanatory strategy.