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 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.