On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:17:34PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 13 May 2015, at 07:45, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > > >That might be the idea. It is difficult to get to this, though, > >since the notion of "primary materialism" doesn't really feature > >in the argument. > > It does, as usually "supervenience" in philosophy of mind means > "primitively-physical supervenience", and it should be clear that > this is what is at stake.
That's never been made clear in the usual discussion of supervenience - eg the Plato.stanford article. Even Maudlin's article doesn't refer to "primitiveness". He is still talking about regular physical supervenience. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
