Supervenience is a central notion in analytic philosophy. It has been invoked in almost every corner of the field. For example, it has been claimed that aesthetic, moral, and mental properties supervene upon physical properties.
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In philosophy, supervenience is a kind of dependency relationship, typically held to obtain between sets of properties. According to one standard definition, a set of properties A supervenes on a se...
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The notion of supervenience was first introduced into the philosophy of mind by Donald Davidson (1970): ... An example of supervenience is given in the relations between the acceleration, velocity, and position of an object in space. An object cannot change its acceleration without changing its velocity, and in turn,
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on supervenience (philosophy), In philosophy, the asymmetrical relation of ontological dependence that holds between two generically different sets of properties (e.g., mental and physical properties) if and only if every change in an object’s properties belonging to the first ...
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Discussion of the supervenience relation in the philosophical literature of recent years has become Byzantine in its intricacy and diversity.
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Dispositions, Supervenience and Reductio ... The second possibility is token-token identities, which would permit supervenience but at the same time exclude the possibility of reduction. Hence serious problems are raised for reduction and these are problems which extend well beyond the current concern of dispositions.
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Necessity and Possibility ... The kind of dualism we've been working with so far is called Cartesian or substance dualism. There's also another kind of dualism, property dualism. ... The substance dualist says that there are special non-physical substances, souls. Since these souls are substances, they can in principle...
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ABSTRACT: Many philosophers has lost their enthusiasm for the concept of supervenience in the philosophy of mind. This is largely due to the fact that, as Jaegwon Kim has shown, familiar versions of supervenience describe relations of mere property covariation without capturing the idea of dependence.
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