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'Consciousness', 'The Character of Physical Law' and 'From Supervenience to Superdupervenience'
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
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Types cannot be reduced, but levels of reduction are varied groupings of the same tokens [Lycan]
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Institutions are not reducible as types, but they are as tokens [Lycan]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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One location may contain molecules, a metal strip, a key, an opener of doors, and a human tragedy [Lycan]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience
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'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T]
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'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T]
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Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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I see the 'role'/'occupant' distinction as fundamental to metaphysics [Lycan]
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