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Beyond Supervenience and Construction

Journal of Social Ontology, 2014
I assume that identity theories and reductive strategies generally about the relationship between both the physical and the mental and the non-social and the social fail and I remind the reader why this is so.
David-Hillel Ruben
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Metaphysical dependence and the subset relation between powers

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What is the relation between the token powers of higher‐level occurrences and the token powers of more basic physical occurrences? In related but somewhat different ways, Sydney Shoemaker and Jessica Wilson argue that the former are a proper subset of the latter, and that this can provide a viable account of higher‐level causation within a ...
Kevin Morris
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Supervenience in Metaphysics [PDF]

Philosophy Compass, 2008
Abstract Supervenience is a topic‐neutral, broadly logical relation between classes of properties or facts. In a slogan, A supervenes on B if and only if there cannot be an A‐difference without a B
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Predictive processing's flirt with transcendental idealism

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 87-109, March 2026.
Abstract The popular predictive processing (PP) framework posits prediction error minimization (PEM) as the sole mechanism in the brain that can account for all mental phenomena, including consciousness. I first highlight three ambitions associated with major presentations of PP: (1) Completeness (PP aims for a comprehensive account of mental phenomena)
Tobias Schlicht
wiley   +1 more source

Superweniencja – pytanie o trywialność [PDF]

Avant, 2011
When it comes to the mind-body problem, different kinds of physicalism were the most popular approaches among philosophers. The presence of anomalous monism with its lack of (the) laws concerning mental events and multiple realizability led to a doubt ...
Błażej Brzostek
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Model‐Based Semantics: Doing Without Meaning Constitution

Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 1-2, Page 103-118, January 2026.
Abstract This paper introduces a model‐based account of meaning, arguing that meaning properties reside in models rather than in the external world. Building on this view, it explores how such an instrumentalist framework can engage critically with various concerns raised by Wittgenstein, Quine, and Kripke[nstein]—each of whom voiced scepticism toward ...
Pietro Salis
wiley   +1 more source

Psychophysical supervenience [PDF]

Philosophical Studies, 1993
Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43394/1/11098_2004_Article_BF00353523 ...
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THE IDEALIST VIEW OF DIVINE ACTION IN NATURE

Zygon, 2020
Theologies of divine action in nature have sought to maximize traction with the sciences to secure their credibility. While varying in significant ways, all extant proposals share a commitment to physical realism, the claim that (at least some) physical
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Inference Rules, Emergent Wholes and Supervenient

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2008
Computer images are “emergent wholes” in relation to their pixels. This may seem to suggest that there cannot be any valid formal inference rule connecting such images with their constituents.
Ingvar Johansson
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Yes to Realism! No to Non-naturalism! [PDF]

Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2009
According to contemporary moral realism a moral property, like goodness or badness, is either a natural (descriptive) property or a non-natural (nondescriptive) property of actions or situations. Contemporary moral naturalists like Richard Boyd, Nicholas
Ulysses T. Araña
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