Standing up for supervenience

Bart Streumer*

*Corresponding author voor dit werk

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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.

Originele taal-2English
Pagina's (van-tot)138-154
Aantal pagina's17
TijdschriftPhilosophy and phenomenological research
Volume109
Nummer van het tijdschrift1
Vroegere onlinedatum25-sep.-2023
DOI's
StatusPublished - jul.-2024

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