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Humean Supervenience in the Light of Contemporary Science [PDF]
, 2009 It is shown that Lewis’ ontological doctrine of Humean supervenience incorporates at its foundation the so-called separability principle of classical physics.
VASSILIOS KARAKOSTAS +1 more
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Diciottesimo Secolo. The relationship between aesthetic and non-aesthetic properties is the subject of theoretical investigation by Jerrold Levinson and Thomas Reid. According to Reid, non-aesthetic properties are perceptual properties that are inherent to so-called ...
Maurizio Maione
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Theoria, 2010 We discuss and analyze two reductive arguments due to Jaegwon Kim and Theodore Sider respectively. According to the first one, strong supervenience would imply necessary coextension of properties (i.e., reduction).
Xavier DE DONATO RODRÍGUEZ +1 more
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Supervenience And Reductive Physicalism [PDF]
, 2011 Supervenience physicalism attempts to combine non-reductionism about properties with a physical determination thesis in such a way as to ensure physicalism.
Demircioglu, Erhan, Erhan Demircioglu
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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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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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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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Quantum Humeanism, or: physicalism without properties [PDF]
, 2014 In recent literature, it has become clear that quantum physics does not refute Humeanism: Lewis’s thesis of Humean supervenience can be literally true even in the light of quantum entanglement.
Michael Esfeld, Esfeld, Michael
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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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, 2010 An encyclopedic article on epistemic supervenience in Blackwell companion to epistemology, 2 ...
Turri, John
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