Philosophy A-Level
Supervenience
What Supervenience means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Supervenience
A relationship where there can be no mental change without a corresponding physical change, though the mental is not necessarily reducible to the physical.
Topics that use Supervenience
- Metaphysics of mind (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Category Mistake
- Eliminative Materialism
- Epiphenomenalism
- Folk Psychology
- Functionalism
- Leibniz's Law
- Multiple Realizability
- Non-reductive Physicalism
Using Supervenience in the exam
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