10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERVENIENT»
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supervenient in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon
Apparently the only possible candidates for non-supervenient objects are
elementary particles. However, there may be no truly elementary particles.
Physics might well discover that each kind of putatively elementary particle has
even smaller ...
2
The Conscious Mind : In Search of a Fundamental Theory: In ...
3. Can. Consciousness. Be. Reductively. Explained? 1. Is. Consciousness.
Logically. Supervenient. on. the. Physical? Almost everything in the world can be
explained in physical terms; it is natural to hope that consciousness might be ...
David J. Chalmers Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona, 1996
3
Ernest Sosa: And His Critics
A supervenient entity is an entity that depends for its existence on certain more
fundamental entities, but exists nonetheless in its own right, as something over
and above the more fundamental entities. Every supervenient entity is a
compound ...
4
A Quarter Century of Value Inquiry: Presidential Addresses ...
These properties are relational, but intrinsic properties. The last of the three
distinctions, that of supervenient or resultant properties and non-supervenient or
non-resultant properties, is one that is occasionally drawn by moral philosophers.
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Mental Causation and the Metaphysics of Mind
EPIPHENOMENAL. AND. SUPERVENIENT. CAUSATION*. Jaegwon Kim 1 .
EPIPHENOMENAL CAUSATION Jonathan Edwards held the doctrine that
ordinary material things do not persist through time but are at each moment
created, and ...
"S(' Kim has sought to exploit this window with his model of supervenient
causation. This model is set forth as follows: "When a mental event M causes a
physical event P, this is so because M is supervenient upon a physical event, P*,
and P* ...
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Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa
But if I am a supervenient thing, and not sui generis, then I can conclude (“from
the armchair”) that at least one supervenient thing exists. Suppose, on the other
hand, that we follow Hume in treating supervenient things as fictions: [I]f we
regard ...
8
The Nature of Consciousness
The problem for LD is closely related to the predicament ofits cousin for the
simple reason that once we buy into the causal-functional analysis of
supervenient properties that is supposedly necessary for LD to construct
supervenient facts from ...
9
Metaphysics of Consciousness
If the nonpsychological properties listedabove arein some way supervenient
upon psychological propertiesthen since I claimthat the psychological properties
are onlyweakly supervenient onthephysical then itseems probable that these ...
10
Contemporary Materialism: A Reader
I believe that the only way other than the identity solution is to give a general
account of causal relations involving macro-events as “supervenient causal
relations”, causal relations that are supervenient on microcausal processes. You
put a ...
Paul K. Moser, Professor and Chair of Philosophy Paul K Moser, J. D. Trout, 2002
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPERVENIENT»
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Wie das Geld der Eltern das Hirn der Kinder formt
Aber so weit, wie Sie hier zu gehen wagen, nämlich von "Hirn" quasi ohne Hirn, nämlich supervenient zu reden, pflegen die Priester der Gehirnreligion in der ... «DiePresse.com, Mar 15»
How Are The Mind And Brain Related?
Much depends here on the nature of the properties upon which the supervenient experiences are said to depend, because such properties might not be ... «Philosophy Now, Jan 08»
