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    Kim's work on supervenience establishes that reductive de... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Schaffner's criticism of Enç for assuming that reduction is causation is misplaced

    Kim's work on supervenience establishes that reductive dependence relations can be asymmetric and necessitating without being straightforwardly causal in the efficient sense.

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    • 1.Supervenience relations hold necessarily (no variation without base variation) yet involve no temporal causal mechanism between levels.
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    • 2.Mental properties depend asymmetrically on physical properties without being reducible to efficient causal powers of any single entity.
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    • 3.Kim's account preserves dependence without requiring downward causation, solving the exclusion problem by denying mental-physical causal competition.
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    • 1.If reduction relations are truly necessitating, explaining why they're not simply constitutive (and thus straightforwardly causal) remains unclear.
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    • 2.The asymmetry between levels may reflect our epistemic access rather than an objective metaphysical structure of dependence relations themselves.
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    • 3.Denying mental causation to preserve physicalism may eliminate the very explanandum—genuine causal efficacy of higher-level properties—that needs explaining.
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