Supervenience

Jaegwon Kim, Brown University, USA Geoffrey Paul Hellman, Frank Wilson Thompson, Simon Blackburn, Jaegwon Kim, Terence Horgan, Brian P. McLaughlin, Robert Stalnaker, James C. Klagge, John F. Post, R. Cranston Paull, Theodore R. Sider, John Bacon, James van Cleve, David Lewis, Barry Loewer, David Papineau, Trenton Merricks, Nicholas Zangwill, Gregory Currie.

• Contents: Physicalism: ontology, determination and reduction, Geoffrey Paul Hellman and Frank Wilson Thompson; Supervenience revisited, Simon Blackburn; Concepts of supervenience, Jaegwon Kim; Supervenience for multiple domains, Jaegwon Kim; Postscripts on supervenience, Jaegwon Kim; Supervenience and microphysics, Terence Horgan; From supervenience to superdupervenience: meeting the demands of a material world, Terence Horgan; Varieties of supervenience; Brian P. McLaughlin; Varieties of supervenience, Robert Stalnaker; Supervenience: ontological and ascriptive, James C. Klagge; 'Global' supervenient determination: too permissive? John F. Post; In defense of global supervenience, R. Cranston Paull and Theodore R. Sider; Supervenience, necessary coextension and reducibility, John Bacon; Supervenience and closure, James van Cleve; Humean supervenience, David Lewis; An argument for strong supervenience, Barry Loewer; Arguments for supervenience and physical realization, David Papineau; Against the doctrine of microphysical supervenience, Trenton Merricks; Moral supervenience, Nicholas Zangwill; Supervenience, essentialism and aesthetic properties, Gregory Currie; Name index.