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An encyclopedic article on epistemic supervenience in Blackwell companion to epistemology, 2 ...
John Turri
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Fodor's Causal Argument and Unwarranted Supervenience Assumption; Examining Egan's Argument [PDF]
In this essay, I examine Fodor's argument in favor of psychological individualism and Egan's response. According to Fodor's causal argument, every scientific theory individualizes states or identities according to their causal powers.
Abbas Mahdavi
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Logics for Normative Supervenience [PDF]
This essay addresses the problem of logically modelling the concept of normative supervenience. We will argue that alternatives of classical logic can grasp specific aspects of this concept.
Antonino Rotolo, Rotolo, Antonino
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Why believe in normative supervenience? [PDF]
According to many, that the normative supervenes on the non-normative is a truism of normative discourse. This chapter argues that those committed to more specific moral, aesthetic, and epistemic supervenience theses should also hold (NS*): As a matter ...
Roberts, Debbie; id_orcid
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Teletransportation, Replication and Mereology [PDF]
The paper criticizes pessimistic views on survival into teletransporter. It is considered, in particular, the recent attempt of Alexey Kardash and Konstantin Morozov to defend the pessimists’ views by means of the criterion of mereorganic continuity ...
A. V. Nekhaev
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Can Western Monotheism Avoid Substance Dualism?
The problem of divine agency and action is analogous to the problem of human agency and action: How is such agency possible in the absence of a dualistic causal interaction between disparate orders of being?
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Supervenience and Naturalism [PDF]
Interest in the idea of supervenience, that still gives a lot of hope to contemporary philosophy, is manifested in introducing more and more precise definitions of it and in introducing formal models of supervenience relations.
Wójcik, Bogusław
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The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively.
Brożek, Bartosz, +5 more
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Books reviewed: Robert A. Segal, Theorizing About Myth Christopher Southgate, Celia Deane‐Drummond, Paul D. Murray, Michael Robert Negus, Lawrence Osborn, Michael Poole, Jacqui Stewart, and Fraser Watts, (eds.) God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook ...
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Toward a Unification of the Arts
This article presents a manifesto for the scientific exploration of the arts in their totality, rather than conceiving of each artform independently on its own terms.
Steven Brown
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