@article {YOSHIMI:March 2007:0279-0750:114, author = "YOSHIMI, JEFFREY", title = "SUPERVENIENCE, DETERMINATION, AND DEPENDENCE", journal = "Pacific Philosophical Quarterly", volume = "88", year = "March 2007", abstract = ":
I show how existing concepts of supervenience relate to two more fundamental ontological relations: determination and dependence. Determination says that the supervenient properties of a thing are a function of its base properties, while dependence says that having a supervenient property implies having a base property. I show that most varieties of supervenience are either determination relations or determination relations conjoined with dependence relations. In the process of unpacking these connections I identify limitations of existing concepts of supervenience and provide ways of overcoming them. What results is a more precise, flexible, and powerful set of tools for relating sets of properties than current concepts of supervenience provide. I apply these tools to a recalcitrant problem in the physicalism literature - the problem of extras.", pages = "114-133(20)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/papq/2007/00000088/00000001/art00006" doi = "doi:10.1111/j.1468-0114.2007.00283.x" }