WHY DEFEND HUMEAN SUPERVENIENCE?

The article presents the concept of Humean Supervenience. Topics include completing the pattern of instantiations of perfectly natural, intrinsic properties at spacetime points, and the spatio temporal relations between them; defending reductive physicalism and revealing all truths about the world o...

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Publicado en:Journal of Philosophy Vol. 117; no. 7; pp. 387 - 407
Autores principales: JAAG, SIEGFRIED, LOEW, CHRISTIAN
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Journal of Philosophy Inc. Jul2020
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Sumario:The article presents the concept of Humean Supervenience. Topics include completing the pattern of instantiations of perfectly natural, intrinsic properties at spacetime points, and the spatio temporal relations between them; defending reductive physicalism and revealing all truths about the world obtaining the virtue of fundamental physical truths; and defending physicalism against philosophical arguments.