Supervenience: New Essays

Supervenience is one of the hot discoveries of analytic philosophy, and this collection of essays on the topic represents an examination of it and its application to major areas of philosophy. The interest in supervenience has much to do with the flexibility of the concept. To say that x supervenes on y indicates a degree of dependence without committing one to the view that x can be reduced to y. Thus supervenience is a relationship that has the potential of replacing the traditional notion of dependence, while performing at least part of the function reductive relationships were supposed to fulfil. Moreover, since it is a topic-neutral concept, supervenience has a wide range of applicability.

• Hot topic in philosophy • A collection with a high-calibre list of contributors

List of contributors; Introduction Elias E. Savellos and Ümit D. Yalçin; 1. Varieties of supervenience Brian McLaughlin; 2. Supervenience: model theory or metaphysics? James C. Klagge; 3. ‘Global’ supervenient determination: too permissive? John F. Post; 4. Weak supervenience supervenes John Bacon; 5. The tweedledum and tweedledee of supervenience Thomas R. Grimes; 6. Reduction in the mind of god Daniel Bonevac; 7. Psychophysical supervenience, dependency and reduction Cynthia MacDonald; 8. Supervenience redux John Heil; 9. Nonreducible supervenient causation Berent Enç; 10. Physicalism, supervenience and dependence Paul K. Moser and J. D. Trout; 11. An argument for strong supervenience Barry Loewer; 12. Arguments for supervenience and physical realisation David Papineau; 13. Supervenience and the essences of events Elias E. Savellos; 14. How does ontology supervene on what there is? Felicia Ackerman; 15. Supervenience and intentionality Earl Conee; 16. Supervenience, coherence and trustworthiness Keith Lehrer; 17. Does truth supervene on evidence? James van Cleve; Index.