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Psychophysical supervenience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The aim of this article is two-fold. First, a critical presentation of the concept of supervenience is carried out. In this context, three basic types of supervenience are presented: weak, strong, and global.
Kurek, Łukasz
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Perception, introspective indiscriminability and the common factor principle

open access: yesFilosofia 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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Where Does the Knowledge Argument Go Wrong?

open access: yesAnálisis 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

open access: yesLabyrinth: 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   +1 more
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Supervenience, Repeatability, & Expressivism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Expressivists traditionally explain normative supervenience by saying it is a conceptual truth. I argue against this tradition in two steps. First, I show the modal claim that stands in need of explanation has been stated imprecisely.
Atiq, Emad H.
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Aesthetic Supervenience versus Aesthetic Grounding

open access: yesEstetika, 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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Psychophysical supervenience. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
I argue that, contrary to what is believed today by many philosophers, a supervenience claim can be quite strong (i.e. it can entail many further claims).
Hendel, Giovanna Enrica
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Humean Supervenience rebugged [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper is a response to Lewis’ ‘Humean Supervenience Debugged’ (1994). Lewis was in the business of defending Humean Supervenience, and the project seemed successful until the case of chance.
Finn, Suki
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From grounding to supervenience? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The concept of supervenience and a regimented concept of grounding are often taken to provide rival explications of pre-theoretical concepts of dependence and determination. Friends of grounding typically point out that supervenience claims do not entail
Leuenberger, S., Stephan Leuenberger
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Fisicalismo sem identidade

open access: yesTrans/Form/Ação, 2022
O artigo apresenta e discute as tentativas mais influentes de caracterizar o fisicalismo sem postular relações de identidade entre o que é físico e o que é prima facie não físico.
Rodrigo A. dos S. Gouvea
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