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Year: 2009

Pages: 115-129

Series: Synthese

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Stephan Leuenberger, "What is global supervenience?", Synthese 170 (1), 2009, pp. 115-129.

What is global supervenience?

Stephan Leuenberger

pp. 115-129

in: Synthese 170 (1), 2009.

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.

Publication details

Year: 2009

Pages: 115-129

Series: Synthese

Full citation:

Stephan Leuenberger, "What is global supervenience?", Synthese 170 (1), 2009, pp. 115-129.