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Dedication

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

1. The Basic Concept

2. The Logic of Supervenience

3. Supervenience and Reduction

4. Arguments for and against Supervenience

5. Supervenience and Causation

6. Is Supervenience Enough?

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Varieties of Supervenience

1. The Core Idea

2. Strong and Weak Supervenience

3. Global Supervenience

4, Pairwise Logical Relationships

5. Multiple-Domain Supervenience

6. Supervenience and Reduction

7. Two Uses of Supervenience

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Supervenience: Model Theory or Metaphysics?

1. The First Problem

2. The Second Problem

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"Global" Supervenient Determination: Too Permissive?

1. Introduction

2. Individualism and Supervenient Determination

3. Individualism and Propertyhood

4. The Minuteness Charge

5. Varieties of Globality/Locality

6. Focused Determination

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Weak Supervenience Supervenes

1. Introduction

2. The Relata of Supervenience

3. What Is a Property?

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The Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Supervenience

1. Strong Supervenience and Reduction

2. Global Supervenience and Reduction

3. Global Supervenience and Determination

4. Strong Supervenience and Determination

5. Conclusion

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Reduction in the Mind of God

1. Strong Supervenience and Reduction

2. Dependence and Ontology

3. Causation

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Psychophysical Supervenience, Dependency, and Reduction

1. Strong Supervenience and the Antireductionist Strategy

2. Developing the Antireductionist Strategy

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Supervenience Redux

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Nonreducible Supervenient Causation

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Physicalism, Supervenience, and Dependence

1. Dualism and Independence

2. Reduction: Definitional and Nomic

3. Supervenience and Dependence

4. Approaches to Dependence

5. Composition and Dependence

6. Conclusion

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An Argument for Strong Supervenience

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Arguments for Supervenience and Physical Realization

1. Introduction

2. Supervenience: Initial Points

3. The Completeness of Physics

4. The Manifestability Argument for Supervenience

5. Strong Supervenience Upheld

6. Supervenience on Brain States

7. Broad Supervenience

8. The Overdetermination Argument for Mind-Brain Coincidence

9. Events and Facts

10. Physical Realization

11. Varieties of Realization

12. The Rejection of Dualism

13. Realization without Supervenience

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Supervenience and the Essences of Events

1. Introduction

2. Main Tenets of Lombard's View

3. (GSL) and Essences: Principle (LESS)

4. (GSL) and Individual Essences: Principle (LHCT)

5. The Debate about h

6. What Price Victory?

7. Results

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How Does Ontology Supervene on What There Is?

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Supervenience and Intentionality

1. Meanings

2. Problems

3. Nonsolutions from Elsewhere

4. Potential Solutions

5. Conclusion

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Supervenience, Coherence, and Trustworthiness

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Does Truth Supervene onEvidence?

1. The Principle Exposed

2. The Principle Refuted

3. A Difficulty

4. Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2,

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Index