Defending the piggyback principle against Shapiro and Sober’s empirical approach
@article{Baltimore2009DefendingTP, title={Defending the piggyback principle against Shapiro and Sober’s empirical approach}, author={Joseph A. Baltimore}, journal={Synthese}, year={2009}, volume={175}, pages={151-168} }
Jaegwon Kim’s supervenience/exclusion argument attempts to show that non-reductive physicalism is incompatible with mental causation. This influential argument can be seen as relying on the following principle, which I call “the piggyback principle”: If, with respect to an effect, E, an instance of a supervenient property, A, has no causal powers over and above, or in addition to, those had by its supervenience base, B, then the instance of A does not cause E (unless A is identical with B). In…
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