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- In philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts. X is said to supervene on Y if and only if some difference...
- work on mental causation, the mind-body problem and the metaphysics of supervenience and events. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian...
- The principle of moral supervenience states that moral predicates supervene upon non-moral predicates, and hence that moral facts involving these predicates...
- "metaphysical or logical combination of properties" using the notion of supervenience. Supervenience is the idea that there cannot be two events alike in all physical...
- Davidson uses the thesis of supervenience: mental states supervene on physical states, but are not reducible to them. "Supervenience" therefore describes a...
- present, the same predicate applies. According to the principle of moral supervenience, moral properties of actions (obligatory, permissible, forbidden, etc...
- counterpart theory, counterfactual causation, and the position called "Humean supervenience". Most comprehensively in On the Plurality of Worlds, Lewis defended...
- modal realism". In Preyer, G.; Siebelt, F. (eds.). Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis. Studies in Epistemology and...
- pp. 188–89, 191ff. Bolender, John (1998), "Factual Phenomenalism: A Supervenience Theory"', Sorites, no. 9, pp. 16–31. Berlin, Isaiah (2004), The Re****ation...
- Analytic–synthetic distinction Counterfactual Natural kind Reflective equilibrium Supervenience Philosophers Noam Chomsky Keith Donnellan Gottlob Frege Edmund Gettier...