Supervenience: New Essays

ISBN-13: 9780521450027 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 334 str.

Elias E. Savellos; Umit D. Yalcin

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"A wide-ranging collection of essays....The volume is well organized..." Don Ross, Philosophy in Review

Spis treści

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.