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Supervenience

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. To quote from "McLaughlin (Brian) & Bennett (Karen) - Supervenience", “A set of properties A supervenes upon another set B just in case no two things can differ with respect to A-properties without also differing with respect to their B-properties. In slogan form, “there cannot be an A-difference without a B-difference”.
  2. So – the classic example is of the mind supervening on the brain (mental properties on physical properties of the brain) – there can be no change of mental properties without a corresponding change of brain-states.
  3. Humean supervenience₂: "is the assumption that all truths about our world will supervene on the class of physical truths in the following sense: There are no truths in any compartment of our world that cannot be accounted for in terms of differences and similarities among those properties and external space-time relations that are fundamental to our world according to physical science."
  4. Apart as a rebuttal of dualism³, I’m interested in Supervenience because it is related to questions of Constitution⁴ and multiple-occupancy⁵. It is also claimed as an objection⁶ to Eric Olson’s Thinking Animal Argument⁷.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "McLaughlin (Brian) & Bennett (Karen) - Supervenience", 2013-18, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
• For a Page of Links⁸ to this Note, Click here. This list reveals more papers than I could possibly read on such a peripheral topic. I’ve tried to be selective in the second list below, but I’ve included in the first list most of the works I’ve read that mention supervenience.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read⁹, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons in the Material World", 2000, Write-Up Note¹⁰, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note¹¹, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Carter (William) - Artifacts of Theseus: Fact and Fission", 1983, Write-Up Note¹², Internal PDF Link
    4. "Carter (William) - Our Bodies, Our Selves", 1988, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Fodor (Jerry) - Individualism and Supervenience", 1987, No Abstract
    6. "Hawley (Katherine) - Fission, Fusion and Intrinsic Facts", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Hawley (Katherine) - Merricks on Whether Being Conscious is Intrinsic", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Hazlett (Allan) - Disassembly and Destruction", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Lewis (David) - Philosophical Papers Volume II: Introduction", 1986
    10. "Merricks (Trenton) - Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Noonan (Harold) - Identity, Constitution and Microphysical Supervenience", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Sider (Ted) - Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies", 2002, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Steinhart (Eric) - Persons Versus Brains: Biological Intelligence in Human Organisms", 2001, Annotations
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Alexander (Ronald) - The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity", 1997, Book, Read = 6%, Footnote₁₃
    2. "Bennett (Karen) - Global Supervenience and Dependence", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Callender (Craig) - Humean supervenience and rotating homogeneous matter", 2001, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Chalmers (David) - Supervenience and Explanation", 1996
    5. "Graham (George) - Does Mind Depend Upon Brain?", 1998
    6. "Haslanger (Sally) - Humean Supervenience and Enduring Things", 1994, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Horgan (Terence) - From Supervenience to Superdupervenience: Meeting the Demands of a Physical World", 1993, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Kim (Jaegwon) - Causality, Identity and Supervenience in the Mind-Body Problem", 1979
    9. "Kim (Jaegwon) - Supervenience", 1994, No Abstract
    10. "Kim (Jaegwon) - Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays", 1999, Book, Read = 6%
    11. "McLaughlin (Brian) & Bennett (Karen) - Supervenience", 2013-18, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    12. "Moran (Alexander P.) - Living without microphysical supervenience", 2021, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    13. "Moyer (Mark) - Weak and Global Supervenience Are Strong", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Murphy (Nancey) - Supervenience and the Downward Efficacy of the Mental: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human Action", 2000, External Link
    15. "Noonan (Harold) - Microphysical Supervenience and Consciousness", 1999, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    16. "Noonan (Harold) - Supervenience", 1987, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Pollock (John L.) - Functionalism and Psychophysical Supervenience", 1989
    18. "Preyer (Gerhard) & Siebelt (Frank) - Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis", 2000, Book
    19. "Rea (Michael) - Supervenience and Co-Location", 1997
    20. "Runggaldier (Edmund) - Comments of Wiggins's 'Identity and Supervenience'", 2002, No Abstract
    21. "Sattig (Thomas) - The Language and Reality of Time", 2006, Book
    22. "Shagrir (Oron) - Global Supervenience, Coincident Entities and Anti-Individualism", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Sider (Ted) - Global Supervenience and Identity Across Times and Worlds", 1999, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    24. "Sider (Ted) - Maximality and Microphysical Supervenience", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    25. "Sider (Ted) - Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Stalnaker (Robert) - Varieties of Supervenience", 2003
    27. "Sutton (Catherine S.) - The Supervenience Solution to the Too-Many-Thinkers Problem", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    28. "Teller (Paul) - Supervenience", 1996, No Abstract
    29. "Wasserman (Ryan) - Humean Supervenience and Personal Identity", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Wiggins (David) - Identity and Supervenience", 2002

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder¹⁴.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 2:

1. Quotation from the cover blurb of "Preyer (Gerhard) & Siebelt (Frank) - Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis".

Footnote 13:

• Alexander thinks that we are Selves, and that Selves are tropes – abstract particulars – which by my lights is about as far from the truth as you can get, so I need to consider his arguments carefully.

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Table of the Previous 6 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
20/09/2022 11:24:00	4327	Supervenience
01/05/2022 18:20:10	3946	Supervenience
17/02/2021 18:50:24	3719	Supervenience
30/09/2020 16:01:55	2544	Supervenience
08/05/2018 16:55:12	4678	Supervenience
23/03/2018 23:29:46	3321	Supervenience

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Supervenience	Constitution

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animalism - Objections	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baker - Persons in the Material World	Baker - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Carter – Artifacts of Theseus
Coincidence	Constitution	Dualism	Note Links Explanation	Plug Note Apologia
Thinking Animal Argument	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Baker - In Favour Of the Constitution View	Baker - Persons and Bodies, 2	Baker - Persons and Bodies - Precis	Baker - Persons in the Material World, 2, 3, 4	Baker - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution, 2, 3, 4
Blackburn - Errors and the Phenomenology of Value, 2, 3	Carter – Artifacts of Theseus, 2, 3, 4, 5	Closest Continuer	Constitution, 2	Crane - Against the Identity Theory : Anti-reductionism, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Crane - Emergence, 2, 3	Crane - Inverted Spectrum, Inverted Earth	Crane - Physicalism, Consciousness and Qualia	Crane - The identity theory, 2	Crane - The Problem of Mental Causation for Non-reductive Physicalism, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Crane - The Propositional Attitude Thesis, 2, 3, 4	Crane - The Prospects for Explaining Consciousness, 2, 3, 4	Crane - Zombies	Locke on Personal Identity	Mackie - The Subjectivity of Values
Olson - Persons and Bodies - Response, 2	Olson - What Are We?, 2	Papineau & Haldane - Naturalism and the Mind - Q&As	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Psychological Continuity
Status: Personal Identity (2025 - December), 2	Status: Priority Task List (2026 - February), 2	Status: Summary (2025 - December), 2	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3, 4, 5
Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Alexander (Denis)	Science and Christian Belief 13.1 - Book Reviews	Paper
Alexander (Ronald)	Searching for the Proper Kind of Supervenience	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Alexander (Ronald)	The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity: Conclusion	Paper
Alexander (Ronald)	The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity: Introduction	Paper
Alexander (Ronald)	The Supervenient Self and Its Relationship to Tropes	Paper	2, 3
Armstrong (David)	Metaphysics and Supervenience	Paper	2
Arntzenius (Frank) & Hall (Ned)	On What We Know About Chance	Paper
Bailey (Andrew M.)	N/A	Author
Baker (Deane-Peter)	Taylor and Parfit on Personal Identity: a Response to Lotter	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Content and Context	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Does Naturalism Rest on a Mistake?	Paper	2, 3
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	In Favour Of the Constitution View	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective: What Is The Problem?	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'Contemporary Dualism: A Defense' by Andrea Lavazza and Howard Robinson, Eds	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'The Emergent Self' by William Hasker	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'The Nature of True Minds' by John Heil	Paper	2, 3, 4
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'Thought and Object: Essays on Intentionality' Andrew Woodfield, Ed.	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	What Beliefs Are Not	Paper
Bennett (Karen)	Global Supervenience and Dependence	Paper	2, 3
Blackburn (Simon)	Errors and the Phenomenology of Value	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Blackburn (Simon)	Supervenience Revisited	Paper
Bolender (John)	Factual Phenomenalism: A Supervenience Theory	Paper
Bontly (Thomas)	Should Intentionality Be Naturalised?	Paper	2
Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds.	Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	Book
Brandon (Ed)	Review of Galen Strawson's 'Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?'	Paper		Yes
Burke (Michael)	Is My Head a Person?	Paper		Yes
Byrne (Alex)	Intentionalism Defended	Paper
Callender (Craig)	Humean supervenience and rotating homogeneous matter	Paper	2
Carruthers (Peter)	Perspectival, subjective, and worldly facts	Paper
Carter (William)	Artifacts of Theseus: Fact and Fission	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Carter (William)	Our Bodies, Our Selves	Paper	2	Yes
Casati (Roberto) & Varzi (Achille)	Counting the Holes	Paper
Chalmers (David)	Supervenience and Explanation	Paper	2
Chalmers (David)	The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory	Book	2, 3
Clayton (Philip)	Neuroscience, the Person, and God: An Emergentist Account	Paper	2, 3, 4
Darwin (Charles)	The Origin of Species	Paper
Davies (Martin)	Individualism and Perceptual Content	Paper
Esfeld (Michael)	Do Relations Require Underlying Intrinsic Properties? A Physical Argument for a Metaphysics of Relations	Paper	2
Fetzer (James)	Consciousness and Cognition: Semiotic Conceptions of Bodies and Minds	Paper
Field (Hartry)	Physicalism	Paper
Fodor (Jerry)	Meaning and the World Order	Paper		Yes
Garrett (Brian)	Causal Essentialism versus the Zombie Worlds	Paper	2
Goodenough (Jerry)	The Achievement of Personhood	Paper
Graham (George)	Does Mind Depend Upon Brain?	Paper	2
Graham (George)	Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction	Book	2
Graham (George)	Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction - Preface	Paper		Yes
Haslanger (Sally)	Humean Supervenience and Enduring Things	Paper	2, 3
Hawley (Katherine)	David Lewis on Persistence	Paper	2
Hawley (Katherine)	Fission, Fusion and Intrinsic Facts	Paper	2	Yes
Hawley (Katherine)	How Things Persist	Book
Hawley (Katherine)	Merricks on Whether Being Conscious is Intrinsic	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Hawley (Katherine)	Persistence and Determination	Paper
Hawley (Katherine)	Persistence and Non-Supervenient Relations	Paper
Hawthorne (John)	Three-Dimensionalism	Paper
Hawthorne (John)	Why Humeans Are Out of Their Minds	Paper
Hawthorne (John), Scala (Mark) & Wasserman (Ryan)	Recombination, Humean Supervenience and Causal Constraints: an Argument for Temporal Parts?	Paper
Hazlett (Allan)	Disassembly and Destruction	Paper	2	Yes
Hershenov (David)	Merrick's Identification of the Person and Organism	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Shoemaker's Problem of Too Many Thinkers	Paper
Hoeffer (Carl)	On Lewis's Objective Chance: 'Humean Supervenience Debugged'	Paper	2
Horgan (Terence)	From Supervenience to Superdupervenience: Meeting the Demands of a Physical World	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Jaeger (Lydia)	Humean supervenience and best-system laws	Paper	2
Johnston (Mark)	Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To?	Paper
Kim (Jaegwon)	Causality, Identity and Supervenience in the Mind-Body Problem	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Kim (Jaegwon)	Concepts of Supervenience	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Kim (Jaegwon)	Consciousness	Paper
Kim (Jaegwon)	Epiphenomenal and Supervenient Causation	Paper
Kim (Jaegwon)	Mental Causation	Paper
Kim (Jaegwon)	Philosophy of Mind: Introduction	Paper
Kim (Jaegwon)	Philosophy of Mind: Preface	Paper		Yes
Kim (Jaegwon)	Reductive and Non-Reductive Physicalism	Paper
Kim (Jaegwon)	'Strong' and 'Global' Supervenience Revisited	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Kim (Jaegwon)	Supervenience as a Philosophical Concept	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Kim (Jaegwon)	The Mind-Body Problem After Fifty Years	Paper
Laurence (Stephen), Margolis (Eric) & Dawson (Angus)	Moral Realism and Twin Earth	Paper
Levine (Joseph)	Experience and Representation	Paper	2, 3
Lewis (David)	New Work for a Theory of Universals	Paper
Lewis (David)	Philosophical Papers Volume II	Book	2, 3, 4
Lewis (David)	Philosophical Papers Volume II: Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37	Yes
Liggins (David)	Truthmakers and the Groundedness of Truth	Paper
Lycan (William)	The Case for Phenomenal Externalism	Paper
MacBride (Fraser)	Truthmakers	Paper	2
Mackie (J.L.)	The Subjectivity of Values	Paper		Yes
Maudlin (Tim)	The Metaphysics Within Physics	Paper
Maudlin (Tim)	The Metaphysics Within Physics	Book
Maudlin (Tim)	The Metaphysics Within Physics	Paper	2, 3, 4
McLaughlin (Brian) & Bennett (Karen)	Supervenience	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Merricks (Trenton)	Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience	Paper	2	Yes
Merricks (Trenton)	Maximality and Consciousness	Paper		Yes
Merricks (Trenton)	Objects & Persons: Preface	Paper		Yes
Merricks (Trenton)	Surviving Eliminativism	Paper	2
Meyering (Theo C.)	Mind Matters: Physicalism and the Autonomy of the Person	Paper	2
Moyer (Mark)	Defending Coincidence: An Explanation of a Sort	Paper
Moyer (Mark)	Statues and Lumps: A Strange Coincidence?	Paper	2
Moyer (Mark)	Weak and Global Supervenience Are Strong	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Mumford (Stephen)	Miracles: metaphysics and modality	Paper
Murphy (Nancey)	Supervenience and the Downward Efficacy of the Mental: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human Action	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Noonan (Harold)	Substance, Identity and Time	Paper	2, 3
Olson (Eric)	Review of P. Snowdon, Persons, Animals, Ourselves	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Thinking Animals and the Constitution View	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We?	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Does Functionalism Tell Us About Personal Identity	Paper	2
Papineau (David)	Introducing Consciousness	Book		Yes
Papineau (David)	The Case for Materialism	Paper
Paul (L.A.)	Coincidence as Overlap	Paper
Percival (Philip)	On Realism about Chance	Paper	2, 3
Pietroski (Paul)	Causing Actions - Preface/Introduction	Paper
Pietroski (Paul)	Modal Concerns	Paper	2, 3
Plantinga (Alvin)	Naturalism, Theism, Obligation and Supervenience	Paper	2
Pollock (John L.)	What Am I? Virtual Machines and the Mind/Body Problem	Paper
Preyer (Gerhard) & Siebelt (Frank)	Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis	Book	2, 3, 4
Rea (Michael)	Supervenience and Co-Location	Paper	2
Rea (Michael)	Temporal Parts Unmotivated	Paper
Robinson (Denis)	Matter, Motion and Humean Supervenience	Paper	2, 3, 4
Sattig (Thomas)	Four-Dimensionalist Supervenience	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Sattig (Thomas)	Temporal Predication and Supervenience Failure	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sattig (Thomas)	Temporal Supervenience	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Sattig (Thomas)	Three-Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism	Paper	2
Sattig (Thomas)	Three-Dimensionalist Supervenience	Paper	2, 3, 4
Searle (John)	Reductionism and the Irreducibility of Consciousness	Paper		Yes
Shagrir (Oron)	Global Supervenience, Coincident Entities and Anti-Individualism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Persons, Animals, and Identity	Paper
Sider (Ted)	Arguments against Four-Dimensionalism	Paper
Sider (Ted)	Global Supervenience and Identity Across Times and Worlds	Paper	2, 3, 4
Sider (Ted)	Maximality and Microphysical Supervenience	Paper
Sider (Ted)	Naturalness, Intrinsicality, and Duplication	Paper
Sider (Ted)	Persistence and Parthood Seminar	Paper	2
Sider (Ted)	Presentism and Ontological Commitment	Paper
Sider (Ted)	Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies	Paper	2	Yes
Sider (Ted)	Review of Trenton Merricks' 'Objects and Persons'	Paper
Sider (Ted)	The Ersatz Pluriverse	Paper
Sider (Ted)	Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument	Paper	2
Sklar (Lawrence)	The Reduction (?) of Thermodynamics to Statistical Mechanics	Paper
Snowdon (Paul)	Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem	Paper	2	Yes
Sosa (Ernest)	Subjects Among Other Things	Paper
Sosa (Ernest)	Surviving Matters	Paper
Stalnaker (Robert)	Varieties of Supervenience	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Stalnaker (Robert)	Ways a World Might Be: Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays	Book
Steinhart (Eric)	Persons Versus Brains: Biological Intelligence in Human Organisms	Paper		Yes
Stich (Stephen)	Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis	Paper
Stoeger (William R.)	The Mind-Brain Problem, the Laws of Nature, and Constitutive Relationships	Paper
Sutton (Catherine S.)	Colocated Objects, Tally-Ho: A Solution to the Grounding Problem	Paper
Sutton (Catherine S.)	The Supervenience Solution to the Too-Many-Thinkers Problem	Paper
Swinburne (Richard)	From Mental/Physical Identity to Substance Dualism	Paper	2
Swinburne (Richard)	Sensations and Brain-Events	Paper
Thomas (Janice L.)	Criticisms of materialism - is the physical enough?	Paper		Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	Davidson's anomalous monism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Thompson (Brad)	Color Constancy and Russellian Representationalism	Paper
Thompson (Brad)	Representationalism and the conceivability of inverted spectra	Paper
Todman (Theo)	Locke on Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Closest Continuer	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Continuity	Paper		Yes
Tye (Michael)	Blurry Images, Double Vision, and Other Oddities: New Problems for Representationalism?	Paper
Van Fraassen (Bas)	Transcendence of the Ego (The Non-Existent Knight)	Paper
van Roojen (Mark)	Moral Cognitivism vs. Non-Cognitivism	Paper
Ward (Barry)	Humeanism without Humean Supervenience: A Projectivist Account of Laws and Possibilities	Paper
Wasserman (Ryan)	Humean Supervenience and Personal Identity	Paper
Wiggins (David)	Preface: Sameness and Substance Renewed	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Williamson (Timothy)	Vagueness	Book	2
Williamson (Timothy)	Vagueness as Ignorance	Paper
Williamson (Timothy)	Vagueness in the World	Paper
Wilson (Jack)	Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities	Paper		Yes
Yagisawa (Takashi)	Beyond Possible Worlds	Paper
Zimmerman (Dean)	Criteria of Identity and the 'Identity Mystics'	Paper	2
Zimmerman (Dean)	One Really Big Liquid Sphere: Reply to Lewis	Paper	2
Zimmerman (Dean)	Scala and the Spinning Spheres	Paper
Zimmerman (Dean)	Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation: The Incompatibility of Two Humean Doctrines	Paper

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Alexander (Ronald)	Searching for the Proper Kind of Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Alexander (Ronald) - The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity, 1997, Chapter 3	No
Alexander (Ronald)	The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity	Book - Cited	Alexander (Ronald) - The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity	6%
Alexander (Ronald)	The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity: Conclusion	Paper - By Subtopic	Alexander (Ronald) - The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity, 1997, Chapter 10	No
Alexander (Ronald)	The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity: Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Alexander (Ronald) - The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity, 1997, Chapter 1	33%
Alexander (Ronald)	The Supervenient Self and Its Relationship to Tropes	Paper - By Subtopic	Alexander (Ronald) - The Self, Supervenience and Personal Identity, 1997, Chapter 4	No
Armstrong (David)	Metaphysics and Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, Vol. 14, No. 42 (Dec., 1982)	40%
Armstrong (David)	Reply to Peter Menzies's 'Laws of nature, modality and Humean supervenience'	Paper - By Subtopic	Bacon, Campbell & Reinhardt - Ontology, Causality and Mind	No
Bacon (John), Campbell (Keith) & Reinhardt (Lloyd)	Ontology, Causality and Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bacon (John), Campbell (Keith) & Reinhardt (Lloyd) - Ontology, Causality and Mind	4%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 1, pp. 3-88	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper - Referencing	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 1, pp. 3-88	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 7, pp. 167-190	Yes
Bennett (Karen)	Global Supervenience and Dependence	Paper - Cited	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 68, No. 3 (May, 2004), pp. 501-529	No
Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds.	Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds. - Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	1%
Callender (Craig)	Humean supervenience and rotating homogeneous matter	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, Volume 110, Number 437, 1 January 2001, pp. 25-44(20)	No
Carter (William)	Artifacts of Theseus: Fact and Fission	Paper - Cited	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 61.3 (September 1983)	Yes
Carter (William)	Our Bodies, Our Selves	Paper - Cited	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66 No. 3,1988, 308-319	Yes
Chalmers (David)	Supervenience and Explanation	Paper - By Subtopic	Chalmers - The Conscious Mind, 1996, Chapter 2	No
Chalmers (David)	The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Chalmers (David) - The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory	0%
Dretske (Fred)	Naturalising the Mind: Externalism and Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Dretske - Naturalising the Mind, Chapter 5	No
Dretske (Fred)	Naturalising the Mind: The 1994 Jean Nicod Lectures	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Dretske (Fred) - Naturalising the Mind: The 1994 Jean Nicod Lectures	3%
Ellis (Brian)	Australasian Journal of Philosophy - 61.3 (September 1983)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	83%
Fodor (Jerry)	Individualism and Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Fodor - Psychosemantics, Chapter 2	Yes
Fodor (Jerry)	Psychosemantics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Fodor (Jerry) - Psychosemantics	Yes
French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard)	Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol IV, 1979) - Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard) - Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol IV, 1979) - Metaphysics	1%
Graham (George)	Does Mind Depend Upon Brain?	Paper - By Subtopic	Graham (George) - Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction, Chapter 8	No
Graham (George)	Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Graham (George) - Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction	17%
Guttenplan (Samuel), Ed.	A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Guttenplan (Samuel), Ed. - A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind	1%
Haslanger (Sally)	Humean Supervenience and Enduring Things	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 72:3; 339-359. 1994.	No
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	30%
Hawley (Katherine)	Persistence and Non-Supervenient Relations	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	8%
Jaeger (Lydia)	Humean supervenience and best-system laws	Paper - By Subtopic	International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 16, Number 2, 1 July 2002, pp. 141-155(15)	No
Johnston (Mark)	Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To?	Paper - Referencing	Johnston (Mark) - Surviving Death, 2010	78%
Johnston (Mark)	Surviving Death	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	13%
Kim (Jaegwon)	Causality, Identity and Supervenience in the Mind-Body Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol IV) - Metaphysics, 1979	No
Kim (Jaegwon)	Concepts of Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim - Supervenience and Mind	21%
Kim (Jaegwon)	Epiphenomenal and Supervenient Causation	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim - Supervenience and Mind	No
Kim (Jaegwon)	Postscript on Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim - Supervenience and Mind	No
Kim (Jaegwon)	Psychophysical Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim - Supervenience and Mind	No
Kim (Jaegwon)	'Strong' and 'Global' Supervenience Revisited	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 48.2 (Dec. 1987), pp. 315-326	No
Kim (Jaegwon)	Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Guttenplan - A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind	No
Kim (Jaegwon)	Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays	Book - Cited	Kim (Jaegwon) - Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays	6%
Kim (Jaegwon)	Supervenience as a Philosophical Concept	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim - Supervenience and Mind	No
Kim (Jaegwon)	Supervenience For Multiple Domains	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim - Supervenience and Mind	No
Lewis (David)	Humean Supervenience Debugged	Paper - By Subtopic	Lewis - Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology	No
Lewis (David)	Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lewis (David) - Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology	5%
Lewis (David)	Philosophical Papers Volume II	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	15%
Lewis (David)	Philosophical Papers Volume II: Introduction	Paper - Referencing	Lewis - Philosophical Papers Volume II, Introduction	Yes
McLaughlin (Brian) & Bennett (Karen)	Supervenience	Paper - Cited	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2005-18	7%
Moran (Alexander P.)	Living without microphysical supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies (2021)	5%
Moyer (Mark)	Weak and Global Supervenience Are Strong	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 138, No. 1 (Mar., 2008), pp. 125-150	No
Murphy (Nancey)	Supervenience and the Downward Efficacy of the Mental: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human Action	Paper - By Subtopic	Russell (Robert John), Murphy (Nancey), Meyering (Theo C.), Arbib (Michael A.) - Neuroscience and the Person	No
Noonan (Harold)	Identity, Constitution and Microphysical Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 271-288, 1999	Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Microphysical Supervenience and Consciousness	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind - 108/432 (October 1999)	17%
Noonan (Harold)	Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 146, Jan., 1987, pp. 78-85	No
Plantinga (Alvin)	Naturalism, Theism, Obligation and Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Faith and Philosophy Volume 27, Issue 3, July 2010: 247-272	No
Pollock (John L.)	Functionalism and Psychophysical Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Pollock - How to Build a Person, Chapter 3	No
Pollock (John L.)	How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Pollock (John L.) - How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon	4%
Preyer (Gerhard) & Siebelt (Frank)	Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis	Book - Cited	Preyer (Gerhard) & Siebelt (Frank) - Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis	No
Preyer (Gerhard) & Siebelt (Frank)	Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis	Paper - By Subtopic	Preyer - Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis	No
Rea (Michael)	Supervenience and Co-Location	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, 34(3), July 1997: 367-375	No
Runggaldier (Edmund)	Comments of Wiggins's 'Identity and Supervenience'	Paper - By Subtopic	Bottani - Individuals, Essence and Identity, 2002	No
Russell (Robert John), Murphy (Nancey), Meyering (Theo C.), Arbib (Michael A.)	Neuroscience and the Person	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Russell (Robert John), Murphy (Nancey), Meyering (Theo C.), Arbib (Michael A.) - Neuroscience and the Person	1%
Sainsbury (Mark), Ed.	Mind - 108/432 (October 1999)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sainsbury (Mark), Ed. - Mind - 108/432 (October 1999)	0%
Sattig (Thomas)	Four-Dimensionalist Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Sattig - The Language and Reality of Time, Chapter 4	No
Sattig (Thomas)	Temporal Predication and Supervenience Failure	Paper - By Subtopic	Sattig - The Language and Reality of Time, Chapter 3	No
Sattig (Thomas)	Temporal Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Sattig - The Language and Reality of Time, Chapter 1	No
Sattig (Thomas)	The Language and Reality of Time	Book - Cited	Sattig (Thomas) - The Language and Reality of Time	No
Sattig (Thomas)	Three-Dimensionalist Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Sattig - The Language and Reality of Time, Chapter 5	No
Sider (Ted)	Global Supervenience and Identity Across Times and Worlds	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (1999): 913–937	10%
Sider (Ted)	Maximality and Microphysical Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66, 2003, 139-149	No
Sider (Ted)	Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (2008): 613–24	No
Stalnaker (Robert)	Varieties of Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Stalnaker - Ways a World Might Be, Chapter 5	No
Stalnaker (Robert)	Ways a World Might Be: Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Stalnaker (Robert) - Ways a World Might Be: Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays	1%
Sutton (Catherine S.)	The Supervenience Solution to the Too-Many-Thinkers Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly 64, no. 257 (October 2014): 619 –639	11%
Teller (Paul)	Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Kim & Sosa - A Companion to Metaphysics	No
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Supervenience	Paper - Referencing		Yes
Ward (Barry)	Humeanism without Humean Supervenience: A Projectivist Account of Laws and Possibilities	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Volume 107, Number 3, February 2002, pp. 191-218(28)	No
Wasserman (Ryan)	Humean Supervenience and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, Oct2005, Vol. 55 Issue 221, p582-593, 12p	No
Wiggins (David)	Identity and Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Bottani - Individuals, Essence and Identity, 2002	No
Wilson (Jack)	Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities	Paper - Referencing	Wilson, Jack - Biological Individuality: The identity and Persistence of Living Entities; 1999, Chap. 1, pp. 1-21	Yes
Wilson (Jack)	Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes

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