creators_name: Post, John F.
editors_name: Pereira, L. C.
editors_name: Wrigley, M.
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 1999-08-26
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:52
metadata_visibility: show
title: Is Supervenience Asymmetric?
ispublished: inpress
subjects: phil-epist
subjects: phil-metaphys
subjects: phil-mind
subjects: phil-sci
subjects: psy-bio
subjects: psy-ling
subjects: psy-phys
full_text_status: public
keywords: supervenience, supervene, determination, determine, nonreductive determination, Kim, reduction, explanation, physicalism, priority, ontological priority, asymmetry, asymmetric, asymmetric ontological priority, transitivity, primacy, ontological primacy, identity
abstract: After some preliminary clarifications, arguments for the supposed asymmetry of supervenience and determination, such as they are, are shown to be unsound. An argument against the supposed asymmetry is then constructed and defended against objections. This is followed by explanations of why the intuition of asymmetry is nonetheless so entrenched, and of how the asymmetric ontological priority of the physical over the non-physical can be understood without the supposed asymmetry of supervenience and determination.
date: 2000
date_type: published
publication: Festshcrift in Honor of Oswaldo Chateaubriand
publisher: Manuscrito
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Post, John F.  (2000) Is Supervenience Asymmetric?  [Book Chapter]    (In Press)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/391/1/revads.htm