In Defense of Global Supervenience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10345447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Cranston Paull, Theodore Sider (0000-0002-9142-0590), Theodore R Sider |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 833-833 |
| Publication date | 1992-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2107913 |
| OpenAlex | W2013794066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 12 |
Nonreductive materialism is the dominant position in the philosophy of mind.The global supervenience of the mental on the physical has been thought by some to capture the central idea of nonreductive materialism: that mental properties are ultimately dependent on, but irreducible to, physical properties.But Jaegwon Kim has argued that global psychophysical supervenience does not provide the materialist with the desired dependence of the mental on the physical, and in general that global supervenience is too weak to be an interesting dependence relation.We argue that these arguments are unsound.Along the way, we clarify the relationship between global and strong supervenience, and show clearly what sort of dependence global supervenience provides.* We'd like to thank Mark Aronszajn, Lynne Rudder Baker, Phillip Bricker, and David Cowles for helpful comments, written and verbal. 1 For a representative example, see Haugeland ( ). 2 See Kim (
Epistemology · Metaphysics · Supervenience · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience
Ontological Dependence
On the Utility of Global Supervenience
Normative Vagueness
Supervenience and Boolean Reduction
Physicalism without supervenience
What is global supervenience
Interdiscourse or supervenience relations
Topological supervenience
The role of supervenience and constitution in neuroscientific research
Robust Supervenience and Emergence
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Global Supervenience and Dependence 1
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |