Standing up for supervenience

Bart Streumer*

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Abstract

There is a well-known argument against irreducibly normative properties that appeals to the following claim about supervenience: for all possible worlds W and W*, if the instantiation of descriptive properties in W and W* is exactly the same, then the instantiation of normative properties in W and W* is also exactly the same. This claim used to be uncontroversial, but recently several philosophers have challenged it. Do these challenges undermine this argument? I argue that they do not, since the negation of this claim about supervenience has consequences that are much more implausible than the negations of key premises in these challenges.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)138-154
Number of pages17
JournalPhilosophy and phenomenological research
Volume109
Issue number1
Early online date25-Sept-2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul-2024

Keywords

  • non-reductive realism
  • normative properties
  • reduction
  • supervenience

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