(Penultimate Version; final version forthcoming in Erkenntnis) Sara Bernstein Nonreductionists about minds and material objects think they have faced down the challenges posed by widespread causal overdetermination. Famously, Kim attacked nonreductive physicalism about the mental on the grounds that it would involve ubiquitous overdetermination of physical effects by mental and physical propert...

The first part of this paper presents an argument showing that the currently most highly acclaimed interventionist theory of causation, i.e. the one advanced by Woodward, excludes supervening macro properties from having a causal influence on effects of their micro supervenience bases. Moreover, this interventionist exclusion argument is demonstrated to rest on weaker premises than classical ex...

Physicalism -like other isms -has meant different things to different people. The main physicalistic thesis I will discuss here is the claim that all occurrences supervene on physical occurrences -that the physical events and states of affairs at a time determine everything that happens at that time. This synchronic claim has been discussed most in the context of the mind/body problem, but it i...

I argue that property dualists cannot hold that minds are physical substances. The focus of my discussion is a property dualism that takes qualia to be sui generis features of reality.

The Picone-type identity for the half-linear second order partial differential equation n i=1 ∂ ∂xi Φ ∂u ∂xi + c(x)Φ(u) = 0, Φ(u) := |u|u, p > 1, is established and some applications of this identity are suggested.

In this work we characterize the combinatorial metrics admitting a MacWilliams-type identity and describe the group of linear isometries of such metrics. Considering coverings that are not connected, we classify the metrics satisfying the MacWilliams extension property.

In this article, a Picone-type identity for the weighted p-biharmonic operator is established and comparison results for a class of half-linear partial differential equations of fourth order based on this identity are derived.