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SUPERVENIENCE Supervenience New Essays Edited by ELIAS E. SAVELLOS UMIT D. YALQIN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521450027 © Cambridge University Press 1995 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1995 This digitally printed version 2007 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Supervenience: new essays / Elias E. Savellos, Omit D. Yalcin. p. cm. ISBN 0-521-45002-0 1. Metaphysics. I. Savellos, Elias E. II. Yalcin, Omit D. BD111.S86 1995 110-dc20 94-38590 CIP ISBN 978-0-521-45002-7 hardback ISBN 978-0-521-03964-2 paperback For Vivian Ackerson, Miranda Yalgm, and Ayten Inter Contents List of Contributors page ix Introduction 1 ELIAS E. SAVELLOS AND UMIT D. YALgiN Varieties of Supervenience 16 BRIAN P. MCLAUGHLIN Supervenience: Model Theory or Metaphysics? 60 JAMES C. KLAGGE "Global" Supervenient Determination: Too Permissive? 73 JOHN F. POST Weak Supervenience Supervenes 101 JOHN BACON The Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Supervenience 110 THOMAS R. GRIMES Reduction in the Mind of God 124 DANIEL BONEVAC Psychophysical Supervenience, Dependency, and Reduction 140 CYNTHIA MACDONALD Supervenience Redux 158 JOHN HEIL Nonreducible Supervenient Causation 169 BERENT ENg Physicalism, Supervenience, and Dependence 187 PAUL K. MOSER AND J. D. TROUT An Argument for Strong Supervenience 218 BARRY LOEWER Arguments for Supervenience and Physical Realization 226 DAVID PAPINEAU vii viii Contents Supervenience and the Essences of Events 244 ELIAS E. SAVELLOS How Does Ontology Supervene on What There Is? 264 FELICIA ACKERMAN Supervenience and Intentionality 273 EARL CONEE Supervenience, Coherence, and Trustworthiness 293 KEITH LEHRER Does Truth Supervene on Evidence? 306 JAMES VAN CLEVE Index 317 Contributors Felicia Ackerman is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. She has published papers on a wide range of philosophical subjects, includ- ing methodology of philosophy, philosophy of language, and related issues in epistemology and metaphysics. John Bacon is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has written in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and modal and predicate-functor logic. A book on tropes, Relations Particularized: The Alphabet of Being, is in press (Blackwell). Daniel Bonevac is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philoso- phy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Reduction in the Abstract Sciences (Hackett, 1982), Deduction (Mayfield, 1987), The Art and Science of Logic (Mayfield, 1990); editor of Today's Moral Issues (Mayfield, 1991); and coeditor of Beyond the Western Tradition (Mayfield, 1992) and Understanding Non-Western Philosophy (Mayfield, 1993). He has published articles on Kant, metaphysics, semantics, and philosoph- ical logic. Earl Conee is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester and Book Review Editor oiNous. He is the author of various papers, largely of a critical nature, on topics in epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Currently his philosophical op- position is directed primarily toward naturalism in epistemology and imputations of begging the question. Berent Enc,, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, has published papers on scientific reduction, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. His current interests range from studies in animal behavior, action theory, and functional explanation to the philosophy of Hume. Thomas R. Grimes is Professor of Philosophy at Arkansas State Uni- versity. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He has published articles on ontology, confirmation, and explanation and is currently working on a project on scientific realism. ix
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