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What is global supervenience?

Stephan Leuenberger

pp. 115-129

Abstract

The relation of global supervenience is widely appealed to in philosophy. In slogan form, it is explained as follows: a class of properties A supervenes on a class of properties B if no two worlds differ in the distribution of A-properties without differing in the distribution of B-properties. It turns out, though, that there are several ways to cash out that slogan. Three different proposals have been discussed in the literature. In this paper, I argue that none of them is adequate. Furthermore, I present a puzzle that reveals a tension in our concept of global supervenience.

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(2009) Synthese 170 (1).

Pages: 115-129

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9360-4

Full citation:

Leuenberger Stephan (2009) „What is global supervenience?“. Synthese 170 (1), 115–129.