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    It is not the case that Lewis's Humean supervenience program demonstrates that rigorous anti-Cartesian, fundamentalist metaphysics remains a live and productive research tradition with no signs of exhaustion.

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    • 1.Humean supervenience faces persistent problems (quidditism, causal exclusion, phenomenal consciousness) without convincing resolutions after decades.
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    • 2.Lewis's influence reflects historical contingency and rhetorical power rather than solving fundamental metaphysical problems durably.
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    • 3.Alternative non-physicalist frameworks (idealism, panpsychism) now attract serious analytical philosophers, suggesting no single research tradition dominates.
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    • 1.Humean supervenience successfully reduces seemingly non-physical phenomena (consciousness, modality) to physical facts, demonstrating metaphysical progress.
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    • 2.Lewis's framework generates ongoing research addressing new problems (laws of nature, dispositional properties), showing continued theoretical productivity.
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    • 3.Rejecting Cartesian dualism while maintaining rigorous metaphysics proves physicalism compatible with systematic philosophical analysis.
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