9 ideas
16052 | 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T] |
16053 | 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T] |
16056 | Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
594 | Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
2632 | Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |