Concepts of Supervenience Revisited

Oron Shagrir

doi:10.1007/s10670-012-9410-7

Concepts of Supervenience Revisited

Oron Shagrir^*

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Abstract

Over the last 3 decades a vast literature has been dedicated to supervenience. Much of it has focused on the analysis of different concepts of supervenience and their philosophical consequences. This paper has two objectives. One is to provide a short, up-do-date, guide to the formal relations between the different concepts of supervenience. The other is to reassess the extent to which these concepts can establish metaphysical theses, especially about dependence. The conclusion is that strong global supervenience is the most advantageous notion of supervenience that we have.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	469-485
Number of pages	17
Journal	Erkenntnis
Volume	78
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-012-9410-7
State	Published - Apr 2013

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Acknowledgments Thanks to Vera Hoffmann, and to two anonymous referees of this Journal. This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation, Grant 725/08.

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