Author: Drai, Dalia [1955- ]
Title: Supervenience and Realism
Description: Aldershot [UK], Ashgate Publishing, (1999). orig.boards. 22x15cm, xiv,128 pp, Series: Avebury Series in Philosophy.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Supervenience: Definitions of Supervenience; Global Supervenience; The Nature of the Set of Base Properties; Trivial Supervenience; Model-Theoretic Treatment of Supervenience; Reduction: What Is Reduction? Closure Constraints on the Sets of Predicates in Reduction; Supervenience Does Not Entail Reduction; Arguments Against Reduction; Realism & Reduction; The Supervenience of Ethical Predicates: Hare; Critique of Blackburn & Dancy; An Argument for Supervenience from Justiifcation; The Supervenience of Mental Predicates: A Critique of Papineau's Argument; A Critique of Horgan's Arguments; A Reconstruction & Critique of Davidson's Argument; An Argument from Justification; From Supervenience to Anti-Realism: The Relationship Between Supervenience & Anti-Realism; An Examination of General Schemes of Realistic Explanation of Supervenience: Implications of the Argument from Supervenience & Its Limits.

Keywords: Ontology, Supervenience, Philosophy, Realism, Philosophic, , , ,