Supervenience new essays
Supervenience is one of the hot "discoveries" of recent analytic philosophy. The interest in supervenience has much to do with the flexibility of the concept. To say that x supervenes on y indicates a degree of dependence without committing one to the view that x can be reduced to y. Thus,...
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| Format: | Buch |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
1995
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Supervenience is one of the hot "discoveries" of recent analytic philosophy. The interest in supervenience has much to do with the flexibility of the concept. To say that x supervenes on y indicates a degree of dependence without committing one to the view that x can be reduced to y. Thus, supervenience is a relationship that has the potential of replacing the traditional notion of dependence, while performing at least part of the function reductive relationships were supposed to fulfill. Moreover, since it is a topic-neutral concept, the range of applicability of supervenience extends to all the major areas of philosophy. |
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| Beschreibung: | XI, 321 S. |
| ISBN: | 0521450020 |