11 ideas
16062 | A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow] |
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] |
16061 | If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
16060 | Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow] |
16064 | The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
16689 | The schools said spirits lack extension, and wonder how many could dance on a needle's point [More,H] |