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(2009) Synthese 170 (1).
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.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9360-4
Full citation:
Leuenberger, S. (2009). What is global supervenience?. Synthese 170 (1), pp. 115-129.
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