Supervenience and The Theory of Experience. Assessing the Explanatory and Descriptive Power of a Formal Concept

The concept of supervenience promises to provide a unifying framework to address and differentiate dependence relations among elementary and higher-order properties. Given its unifying potential, it comes as no surprise that the concept of supervenience has been adopted in order to define property-relations in such different fields of inquiry as those concerning the mind-body problem, the origin and the status of moral properties, and the dependence of modal truths on non-modal truths, etc. Assuming that the theoretical power of any concept is not only due to its consistency on the meta-theoretical level, but also to its descriptive and explanatory potential for the investigation of concrete phenomena, the aim of this issue of Metodo was to test the concept of supervenience in different domains of application.nrpages: 214status: publishe