Tom Polger
Introduction '''Tom Polger''' is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati in the United States. His research focuses on naturalistic accounts of the metaphysics of mind. Polger is a past president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Publications '''Books'''* Polger, T. 2004. ''Natural Minds''. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press* '''Articles and chapters'''* Polger, T. 2009. "Two Confusions Concerning Multiple Realizability". ''Philosophy of Science'' 75 (5): 537–547. * Polger, T. 2009. "Evaluating the Evidence for Multiple Realization". ''Synthese'' 167 (3): 457–472. * Polger, T. 2009. "Identity Theories". ''Philosophy Compass'',4 (4): 1-13. (survey article)* Polger, T. 2009. "As a Good Bartender Might: Whiskey and Natural Kinds". ''Whisk(e)y & Philosophy'', F. Allhoff and M. Adams (eds. ), Blackwell: 179–194. * Polger, T. and L. Shapiro. 2008. "Understanding the Dimensions of Realization". ''Journal of Philosophy'', CV (4): 213–222. * Polger, T. 2008.H2O, ‘Water’, and Transparent Reduction. Erkenntnis, 69 (1): 109–130. * Polger, T. 2008. "Computational Functionalism". In ''The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology'', P. Calvo and J. Symons (eds. ), London: Routledge. * Polger, T. 2007. "Realization and the Metaphysics of Mind". ''Australasian Journal of Philosophy'', 85 (2): 233–259. * Polger, T. 2007. "Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness". In ''The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness'', M. Velmans and S. Schneider (eds. ), Blackwell Publishers. * Polger, T. 2006.Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism. In The Matter of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction, M. Schouten and H. Looren de Jong (eds. ), Blackwell Publishers. * Polger, T. 2006.A Place for Dogs and Trees? An Essay on Gregg Rosenberg's, A Place for Consciousness. Psyche 12 (5): 1-20. * Polger, T. and K. Sufka. 2006.Closing the Gap on Pain: Mechanism, Theory, and Fit. In New Essays on the Nature of Pain and the Methodology of its Study, M. Aydede (ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. * Polger, T. 2004.Neural Machinery and Realization. Philosophy of Science. 71 (5): 997–1006. * Polger, T. 2002.Putnam's Intuition. Philosophical Studies, 109, 2: 143–170. * Polger, T. and O. Flanagan. 2002.Consciousness, Adaptation and Epiphenomenalism. In Consciousness Evolving, J. Fetzer (Ed). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. * Polger, T. and O. Flanagan. 2001.A Decade of Teleofunctionalism: Lycan's Consciousness and Consciousness and Experience. Minds and Machines, 11, 1: 113–126. (Review essay, with a reply from William Lycan, “Response to Polger and Flanagan,” pp. 127–132. )* Polger, T. 2000.Zombies Explained. In Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment, D. Ross, A. Brook, and D. Thompson (Eds). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (With a reply from Daniel Dennett, “With a Little Help from My Friends.”)* Purves, D., Lotto, B., and T. Polger. 2000.Color Vision and the Four- Color-Map Problem. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 2: 233–237. * Polger, T. and O. Flanagan. 1999.Natural Answers to Natural Questions. In Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays, V. Hardcastle (Ed). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. * Flanagan, O. and T. Polger. 1995.Zombies and the Function of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2, 4: 313–321. (With replies by Dennett, Güzeldere, Lanier, Bringsjord, Moody
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External links *  Tom Polger's website