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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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Supervenience in metaphysics [PDF]

Philosophy Compass, 2008
Supervenience is a topic-neutral, broadly logical relation between classes of properties or facts. In a slogan, <i>A</i> supervenes on <i>B</i> if and only if there cannot be an <i>A</i>-difference without a <i>B&
Leuenberger, S.
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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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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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Vehicles, contents and supervenience [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2018
In this paper, I provide an argument for the assumption that contents supervene on vehicles, which is based on the explanatory role of representations in the cognitive sciences.
Vosgerau Gottfried
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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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Physicalism [PDF]

, 2020
This chapter considers potential applications of grounding to the formulation of physicalism. I begin with an overview of competing conceptions of the physical and of physicalism.
Bryant, Amanda
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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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The Metaphysics of Moral Explanations [PDF]

, 2020
It’s commonly held that particular moral facts are explained by ‘natural’ or ‘descriptive’ facts, though there’s disagreement over how such explanations work.
Fogal, Daniel, Risberg, Olle
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