supervenience

• “But regardless of how long the notion of supervenience has been around, or who first used the term ˜supervenience™ in its philosophical sense, it is indisputable that Donald Davidson played a key role in bringing the idea to center stage.”

  Supervenience

• “Jaegwon Kim (1984, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993), David Lewis (1983), and others began to examine the notion of supervenience itself, and to explore its usefulness for a wide variety of philosophical purposes.”

  Supervenience

• “A somewhat less restrictive view than reductionism is the theory of "supervenience" between levels of scientific description.”

  Methodological individualism

• “Fs. (61) SFN transformations assert a kind of supervenience condition on Fs: if the relevant non-F conditions obtain, Fs exist and have the relevant features.”

  Propositions

• “supervenience", mind-brain identity, epiphenomenalism, or simply denying that mental or other non-physical events can be causes.”

  Recently Uploaded Slideshows

• “supervenience" goes back to G. E.Moore's work on ethics.”

  Recently Uploaded Slideshows

• “While reductionistic understandings agree that supervenience occurs, reductionistic supervenience maintains that there are consistent principles that function in the same way at both levels.”

  Panentheism

• “A different suggestion has been made by Melnyk (2003), who argues that physicalism should be defined not in terms of supervenience but in terms of a different relation, realization.”

  Physicalism

• “All supervenience says is that if a world is a minimal physical duplicate of the actual world, it is a duplicate simpliciter.”

  Physicalism

• “In order to answer this question it is worth comparing and contrasting supervenience physicalism with two alternative statements of physicalism that one finds in the literature: token and type physicalism.”

  Physicalism

Show 10 more examples...