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Single Idea 11055

[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience ]

Full Idea

'Strong supervenience' involves necessary covariation of the properties, and upward dependence of higher level on lower level. ...If we add a nomological connection between the two, then we have 'superdupervenience'.

Gist of Idea

Supervenience can add covariation, upward dependence, and nomological connection

Source

Robert Hanna (Rationality and Logic [2006], 1.2)

Book Ref

Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.11


A Reaction

[compressed] Very helpful. A superdupervenient relationship between mind and brain would be rather baffling if they were not essentially the same thing. (which is what I take them to be).


The 9 ideas with the same theme [distinguishing different forms of supervenience]:

Users of 'supervenience' blur its causal and constitutive meanings [Searle]
Mereological supervenience says wholes are fixed by parts [Kim]
Where pixels make up a picture, supervenience is reduction [Lewis]
'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T]
'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T]
Logical supervenience is when one set of properties must be accompanied by another set [Chalmers]
Natural supervenience is when one set of properties is always accompanied by another set [Chalmers]
Supervenience can add covariation, upward dependence, and nomological connection [Hanna]
Weak supervenience is in one world, strong supervenience in all possible worlds [Bennett,K]