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On Supervenience [PDF]

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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PAREITIS, FIZIKALISTINĖ REDUKCIJA IR PERKEISTOS KOKYBĖS

Problemos, 2007
Funkcinės psichinių savybių analizės atveriama jų materialiojo įkūnijimo įvairovės galimybė verčia materialistinį monizmą sąmonės filosofijoje formuluoti ne psichinių ir fizinių savybių tapatumo, bet pirmųjų pareities nuo antrųjų tezę.
Jonas Dagys
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Perception, introspective indiscriminability and the common factor principle

Filosofia Unisinos, 2011
Conjunctive philosophical theories of visual experience accept the common kind principle, according to which perceptions and their introspectively indiscriminable hallucinatory counterparts should be considered as mental states or events of the same ...
Francisco Pereira
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Metaphysics and Supervenience

Crítica, 2018
En este artículo propongo y defiendo una base epistemológica para una metafísica. No creo que haya una base epistemológica lógicamente indudable, pero creo que la base (que propondré, dada nuestra situación epistemológica actual, es una que sabemos que ...
D. M. Armstrong
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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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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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Aesthetic Supervenience versus Aesthetic Grounding

Estetika, 2012
The claim that having aesthetic properties supervenes on having non-aesthetic properties has been widely discussed and, in various ways, defended. In this article, I aim to demonstrate that even if it is sometimes true that a 'supervenience' relation ...
Jiri Benovsky
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Where Does the Knowledge Argument Go Wrong?

Análisis Filosófico, 2023
In his well-known Knowledge Argument (KA) Frank Jackson attempted to show that physicalism is false by offering a case that allegedly showed that a complete physicalist description of the world leaves something crucial out, namely the phenomenal ...
Fernando Rudy Hiller
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Human Rights without Objective Intrinsic Value

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2019
The current predominant conception of human rights implies that human beings have objective intrinsic value. In this paper, we defend that there is no satisfactory justification of this claim.
Víctor Cantero-Flores, Roberto Parra-Dorantes   +1 more
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Neuroscience, the Person, and God: An Emergentist Account

Zygon, 2000
Strong forms of dualism and eliminative materialism block any significant dialogue between the neurosciences and theology. The present article thus challenges the Sufficiency Thesis, according to which neuroscientific explanations will finally be ...
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