Supervenience

Supervenience Physicalism: Introductory, and then turn directly to the truth question which begins at

Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

Supervenience implies that any two items that share the same properties in molecular terms, also have the same properties in Mendelian terms, without, however, entailing a commitment that Mendelian laws must be deducible from the laws of biochemistry (Rosenberg 1978).

Gene Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 2009

If you insist despite these admonitions on not getting a life, then I recommend that you read Jaegwon Kim's books, Supervenience and Mind, and Mind in a Physical World: Essays on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation.

Barney Teaches a "Scientific Fact" 2007

Supervenience physicalism, as we have been understanding it, is a contingent thesis that is consistent with the possibility (if not the actuality) of disembodiment.

Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

Tim Maudlin argues against Lewis's Humean Supervenience on the basis of quantum entanglement and argues that this means the end of ontological reductionism, and abandoning the combinatorial conception of reality that comes from thinking of the world as made of building blocks, each of which exists independently of the others (1998, 59) and: “The world is not just a set of separately existing localized objects, externally related only by space and time”

Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009

Supervenience physicalism does not on its own entail this.

Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

Supervenience: There are more and less fundamental entities, and the less fundamental depend on the more fundamental.

Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction Mallon, Ron 2008

Gibbons, John (1993) “Identity Without Supervenience.”

Externalism About Mental Content Lau, Joe 2008

Supervenience, first introduced by Davidson in discussion of mental properties, is the notion that system with properties on one level is composed of entities on a lower level and its properties are determined by the properties of the lower-level entities or states.

The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007

McLaughlin, B.P. (1994), “Varieties of supervenience”, in E. Savellos and O. Yalchin (eds), Supervenience: New E.says, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 16-59.

Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics Berkovitz, Joseph 2007