objects have accidental intrinsic properties as long as the properties’ supervenience base is contingently configured too. What does the type-creationist take to be the supervenience base for repeatable artworks? The creative acts of artists are obviously part of it, but also relevant are the type’s embodiments, including the patterns of (re)production and modification. But given that these cre...

The validity of functional explanations as they are commonly used in psychology has recently come under attack. Kim’s supervenience argument purports to prove that higher-level generalizations have no causal powers of their own, and hence are explanatorily irrelevant. In a nutshell, the supervenience argument forces us to either embrace epiphenomenalism of higherlevel properties, or accept Kim’...

Most philosophical accounts of emergence are based on supervenience, with supervenience being an ontologically synchronic relation of determination. This conception of emergence as a relation of supervenience, I will argue, is unable to make sense of the kinds of emergence that are widespread in selforganizing and nonlinear dynamical systems, including distributed cognitive systems. In these dy...

The thesis of methodological individualism in social science is commonly divided into two different claims – explanatory individualism and ontological individualism. Ontological individualism is the thesis that facts about individuals exhaustively determine social facts. Initially taken to be a claim about the identity of groups with sets of individuals or their properties, ontological individu...

Kripke-Armstrong argument aims to establish that the defender of existence material objects? temporal parts cannot determine whether a lonely homogeneous disc made continuous matter is rotating around its axis or not. The perdurantist distinguish between these two possibilities by appealing different instantaneous velocities disc, since doing so he would violate Humean supervenience thesis. In ...