Supervenience and neuroscience

Synthese

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 443-463

  Mandik, Pete ^a  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuroscience; Physicalism; Reductionism; Supervenience

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955601087     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-010-9712-8     Document Type: Article

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