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Let strong physicalist supervenience (SPS) be the view that necessarily all truths supervene on first-order truth about the spatiotemporal a...

On typical functionalist views of mind, what mental states a physical system has depends on counterfactual connections between physical prop...

A normative power is a power to change a normative condition. Raz says the change is not produced “causally” but “normatively”. Here is a ...

Start with the concept of “narrowly physical” for facts about the arrangement of physical entities and first-order physical properties such ...

It is generally taken that a view on which there are mental properties that do not supervene on the properties of physics is a non-naturalis...

Suppose a dog lives forever. Assuming the dog stays roughly dog-sized, there is only a finite number of possible configurations of the dog’s...

Problem: It seems that if God necessarily exists, then the moral automatically supervenes on the non-moral. For, any two worlds that differ...

In the philosophy of mind, those who take anti-reductionism really seriously will also reject the supervenience of the mental on the non-men...

The B -properties supervene on the A -properties provided that any two possible worlds with the same A -properties have the same B -properti...

There is something very unappealing about unexplained, i.e., brute, metaphysical necessities that are “arbitrary”. For instance, suppose tha...

This is very much a thinking-in-progress post rather than a finished argument. But I've been toying with this line of thought: The simul...

Say that the A-facts cs-supervene on the B-facts iff a computer simulation of the B-facts, based on the actual world's B-laws...

The Knowability Paradox is the surprisingly easy argument that if there are unknown truths, there are unknowable truths. Use ...

I suspect that pressure to believe in vagueness about the existence of material substances comes from a belief that facts about t...