A defense of the supervenience requirement on physicalism. (14th October 2021) - Alter, Torin
Abstract: The supervenience requirement on physicalism says roughly that if physicalism is true then mental properties supervene on fundamental physical properties. After explaining the basis of the requirement, I defend it against objections presented by Lei Zhong ("Physicalism without supervenience, " Philosophical Studies 178 (5), 2021: 1529–44), Barbara Gail Montero ("Must physicalism imply supervenience of the mental on the physical?" Journal of Philosophy 110, 2013: 93–110), and Montero and Christopher Devlin Brown ("Making room for a this‐worldly physicalism, " Topoi 37 (3), 2018: 523–32).