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An investigation into mental illness and its comorbidities from the perspective of supervenience physicalism [PDF]

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
The exploration into the origin of human spirituality has always been a hot spot with many unsolved questions in the philosophy of mind, and issues concerning mental illness and its comorbidities are still unclear.
Ping Yang, Xinyue Zhang, Hongwen Song, Xiaochu Zhang   +3 more
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Truthmaking and Supervenience

Theoria, 2010
This paper advances a criticism of Parsons’ notion of truthmaker grounded on the notion of supervenience. I argue that none of the two naturalinterpretations of Parsons’ definition succeeds in accomplishing the several tasks intended by Parsons.
Joan PAGÈS
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How-tests for consciousness and direct neurophenomenal structuralism [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Despite recent criticism, the search for neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) is still at the core of a contemporary neuroscience of consciousness.
Sascha Benjamin Fink, Sascha Benjamin Fink   +1 more
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On Supervenience

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
A logical formalization of the supervenience relation is proposed, allowing it to be presented as a logical, theoretical or factual relation between an individual property and another property, between an individual property and a set of properties ...
Vasilii B. Petrov
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Theological Utilitarianism, Supervenience, and Intrinsic Value

Religions, 2023
Erik Wielenberg has argued that robust realism can account for the “common-sense moral belief” that “some things distinct from God are intrinsically good”. By contrast, theological stateism cannot account for this belief.
Matthew Alexander Flannagan
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Moral Principles: Criticism and Defense [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2023
The main purpose of this essay is to defend moral principles in the light of their critique by advocates of anti-theory in ethics. Moral principles, according to critics, cannot realize the main aim of principle-based ethics, which is providing a ...
Anna Krajewska
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Dreier on the supervenience argument against robust realism

Filosofia Unisinos, 2017
Blackburn has put forward a very influential argument against moral realism, which turns around the supervenience relation. Dreier’s version of the supervenience argument has a narrower target.
Wilson Mendonça
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Supervenience and Explanatory Exclusion

Crítica, 2019
This paper argues that there is an inconsistency between Jaegwon Kim's earlier work on supervenience and his more recent work on explanatory exclusion. In his work on supervenience Kim advocates an explanatory agnosticism that, by the time of his later ...
Lee McIntyre
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What Is so Bad about Permanent Coincidence without Identity? [PDF]

Organon F
‘What is so bad about permanent coincidence without identity?’ (Mackie 2008: 163). This is the very question at the heart of the debate between pluralists and monists about constitution (Baker 1997, Fine 2003, Gibbard 1975, Johnston 1992, Lewis 1986 ...
Harold W. Noonan
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Vstříc vědecké metafyzice

Teorie vědy, 2023
Recenzní studie reflektuje knihu Vladimíra Havlíka Hierarchická emergentní ontologie a univerzální princip emergence (Filosofia, 2021). Všímá si klíčových argumentačních postupů a implikací argumentů autora.
Lukáš H. Zámečník
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