Supervenience and Naturalism
Abstract
Interest in the idea of supervenience, that still gives a lot of hope to contemporary philosophy, is manifested in introducing more and more precise definitions of it and in introducing formal models of supervenience relations. However, at the same time it is remarked that the philosophical expectations connected with supervenience may not be met. Owing to the use of supervenience correlations resisting naturalisation that earlier were explained with the notion of emergence, found explanations taking into consideration the current state of knowledge. Despite this positive function – borrowed from philosophy, and not being a scientific product – the notion of supervenience, used among others in meta-ethics or in physicalist definitions of mentality, may prove to be an indirect solution.
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