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