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Full Idea
While the non-reductive physicalist believes that mental/physical supervenience must be explained, the emergentist is willing to accept it as a fact of nature.
Clarification
'Supervenience' is a relationship of an inextricable link
Gist of Idea
Non-reductive physicalism seeks an explanation of supervenience, but emergentists accept it as basic
Source
Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 2.18)
Book Ref
Crane,Tim: 'Elements of Mind' [OUP 2001], p.66
A Reaction
A good reason not to be an emergentist. No philosopher should abandon the principle of sufficient reason.
| 22741 | The incorporeal is not in the nature of body, and so could not emerge from it [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 5787 | There is non-event causation between mind and brain, as between a table and its solidity [Searle] |
| 2313 | Emergentism says there is no explanation for a supervenient property [Kim] |
| 2328 | The only mental property that might be emergent is that of qualia [Kim] |
| 4084 | Non-reductive physicalism seeks an explanation of supervenience, but emergentists accept it as basic [Crane] |
| 2405 | Perhaps consciousness is physically based, but not logically required by that base [Chalmers] |
| 6148 | Human organisms can exercise downward causation [Merricks] |
| 14911 | Science is opposed to downward causation [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 14556 | Strong emergence seems to imply top-down causation, originating in consciousness [Mumford/Anjum] |