What is Supervenience? | Philosophy Glossary

What is supervenience, why do philosophers talk about it so much, and what has it got to do with the mind? You'll know in under 8 minutes of this Philosophy Glossary explainer! More Philosophy Glossary: A Priori & a Posteriori    • What do A Priori / A Posteriori mean? | Ph...   Analytic & Synthetic    • What do Analytic and Synthetic mean? | Phi...   Necessity, contingency, possibility    • Necessity, contingency, possibility | Phil...   Necessary and Sufficient Conditions    • Necessary and Sufficient Conditions | Phil...   Nominalism    • What is Nominalism? | Philosophy Glossary   Realism and Anti-Realism    • Realism and Anti-Realism | Philosophy Glos...   Behaviourism    • Behaviourism | Philosophy Glossary   Identity theory    • Identity Theory of Mind | Philosophy Glossary   Functionalism    • Functionalism about the Mind | Philosophy ...   Mind-Body Dualism    • Mind-Body Dualism | Philosophy Glossary   00:00 - Intro 00:33 - A dependency relation 01:08 - A rough idea of what it means 01:40 - A dependence relationship 02:00 - Non-causal dependence 03:56 - Official definition 05:30 - Possible worlds definition 05:54 - Supervenience in philosophy of mind 08:02 - Wrap up If there’s a topic you’d like to see covered, leave me a comment below. Links: My academic philosophy page: http://markjago.net My book What Truth Is: http://bit.ly/JagoTruth Most of my publications are available freely here: https://philpapers.org/s/Mark%20Jago Get in touch on Social media! Instagram:   / atticphilosophy   Twitter:   / philosophyattic   #philosophy #supervenience #mind