Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Michael V. Wedin and David J.Chalmers
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 3. Levels of Reality
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A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience
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Properties supervene if you can't have one without the other [Chalmers]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience
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Logical supervenience is when one set of properties must be accompanied by another set [Chalmers]
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Natural supervenience is when one set of properties is always accompanied by another set [Chalmers]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow]
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Reduction requires logical supervenience [Chalmers]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Physicalism says in any two physically indiscernible worlds the positive facts are the same [Chalmers, by Bennett,K]
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Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow]
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The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
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All facts are either physical, experiential, laws of nature, second-order final facts, or indexical facts about me [Chalmers]
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