Supervenience
Supervenience
New Essays
July 1995
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Hardback
9780521450027
Supervenience is one of the hot "discoveries" of recent analytic philosophy, and this collection of new essays on the topic represents a "state of the art" examination of it and its application to major areas of philosophy. Hitherto a serious student had to track down scattered articles in journals on the subject. Now that reader can find some of the finest philosophers writing on this topic in a comprehensive, integrated anthology.
- Hot topic in philosophy
- A collection with a high-calibre list of contributors
Reviews & endorsements
"A wide-ranging collection of essays....The volume is well organized..." Don Ross, Philosophy in Review
Product details
July 1995Hardback
9780521450027
334 pages
236 × 160 × 25 mm
0.59kg
12 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction Elias E. Savellos and Ümit D. Yalçin
- 1. Varieties of supervenience Brian McLaughlin
- 2. Supervenience: model theory or metaphysics? James C. Klagge
- 3. 'Global' supervenient determination: too permissive? John F. Post
- 4. Weak supervenience supervenes John Bacon
- 5. The tweedledum and tweedledee of supervenience Thomas R. Grimes
- 6. Reduction in the mind of god Daniel Bonevac
- 7. Psychophysical supervenience, dependency and reduction Cynthia MacDonald
- 8. Supervenience redux John Heil
- 9. Nonreducible supervenient causation Berent Enç
- 10. Physicalism, supervenience and dependence Paul K. Moser and J. D. Trout
- 11. An argument for strong supervenience Barry Loewer
- 12. Arguments for supervenience and physical realisation David Papineau
- 13. Supervenience and the essences of events Elias E. Savellos
- 14. How does ontology supervene on what there is? Felicia Ackerman
- 15. Supervenience and intentionality Earl Conee
- 16. Supervenience, coherence and trustworthiness Keith Lehrer
- 17. Does truth supervene on evidence? James van Cleve
- Index.
