Ideas from 'From Supervenience to Superdupervenience' by Terence Horgan [1993], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Mind' (ed/tr -) [- ,]].

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience

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'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation

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'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Don't just observe supervenience - explain it!

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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Materialism requires that physics be causally complete

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Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism

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Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true