?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Anti-Reductionism+Slaps+Back&rft.creator=Block%2C+Ned&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=For+nearly+thirty+years%2C+there+has+been+a+consensus+(at+least+in+English-speaking+countries)+that+reductionism+is+a+mistake+and+that+there+are+autonomous+special+sciences.+This+consensus+has+been+based+on+an+argument+from+multiple+realizability.+But+Jaegwon+Kim+has+argued+persuasively+that+the+multiple+realizability+argument+is+flawed.1+I+will+sketch+the+recent+history+of+the+debate%2C+arguing+that+much+--but+not+all--of+the+anti-reductionist+consensus+survives+Kim's+critique.+This+paper+was+originally+titled+%22Anti-Reductionism+Strikes+Back%22%2C+but+in+the+course+of+writing+the+paper%2C+I+came+to+think+that+the+concepts+used+in+the+debate+would+not+serve+either+position+very+well.&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F229%2F1%2F199712002.html&rft.identifier=++Block%2C+Ned++(1996)+Anti-Reductionism+Slaps+Back.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F229%2F