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Full Idea
Many philosophers saw in mind-body supervenience a satisfying metaphysical statement of physicalism without reductionism. This widely influential position is now known as "nonreductive physicalism".
Gist of Idea
Non-Reductive Physicalism relies on supervenience
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], §1 p.008)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Mind in the Physical World' [MIT 2000], p.8
A Reaction
If two things supervene on one another, then we should be asking why. Occasionalism and Parallelism are presumably not the answer. Coldness supervenes on ice.