Download or read book Physical Realization written by Sydney Shoemaker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can physicalism be true? How can all facts about the world be constituted by facts about the distribution in the world of physical properties? Shoemaker's answer to this question involves showing how the mental properties of a person can be 'realised' in the physical properties of that person.