supervenience - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

David Lewis posited a type of this concept holding that “worlds like ours” must differ in the “arrangement of qualities” to be different. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this concept illustrated by R. M. Hare with the sentence “St. Francis was a good man.” This relation’s “global” form is equated with its “strong” form in a paper by Jaegwon Kim titled for “Concepts of” it.

ANSWER: supervenience [accept Humean supervenience; accept weak supervenience or strong supervenience or global supervenience; accept “Concepts of Supervenience”]

[10m] An essay by Kim asks if supervenience and “non-strict laws” could save an “anomalous” form of this position espoused by Donald Davidson. David Chalmers referred to this position’s neutral form as “Type-F.”

ANSWER: monism [accept anomalous monism; accept neutral monism or Russellian monism or Type-F monism; accept “Can Supervenience and ‘Non-Strict’ Laws Save Anomalous Monism?”]

[10e] Kim’s “exclusion argument” claims events created by this entity supervene on physical events. Kim’s pairing problem draws on Elizabeth of Bohemia’s objection against Cartesian dualism regarding this immaterial entity’s interaction with the body.

ANSWER: mind [accept mind-body dualism; accept mental events]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	4	20.00	75%	75%	50%
Canada	Main	Y	6	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	3.33	33%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	4.29	43%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	2.00	20%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	11.00	70%	30%	10%
South Central	Main	Y	5	4.00	40%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	5.83	58%	0%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	6.25	50%	13%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	7.50	50%	13%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Berkeley E	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Stanford C	0	0	10	10
Claremont Pitzer	Claremont Scripps	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	USC	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	0	10	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA C	0	0	0	0
UCLA D	UCSB	0	0	10	10
UCI	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	0	0	0
ERAU A	ERAU B	0	0	0	0
FSU	Melbourne A	0	0	0	0
UCF A	FIU	0	0	10	10
UF A	UCF B	0	0	0	0
UF B	UF E	0	0	10	10
Melbourne B	USF	0	0	0	0
CWRU D	Pitt B	0	0	0	0
CWRU B	MSU A	0	0	10	10
OSU D	OSU A	0	0	0	0
OSU B	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
OSU C	Pitt A	0	0	10	10
Pitt C	Kenyon B	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Clemson A	0	0	0	0
Clemson B	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	North Carolina A	0	0	0	0
James Madison	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Roanoke	NC State	0	0	0	0
Virginia B	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Tennessee B	Tusculum	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Virginia A	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina C	0	0	0	0
MSU B	Kenyon A	0	0	0	0
Missouri B	WashU B	0	0	0	0
WashU A	Missouri A	0	10	10	20
WashU D	William Woods	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Rowan A	Columbia B	0	0	0	0
Rutgers C	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore A	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Truman State	WashU C	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	UIC	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame D	Michigan D	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Minnesota A	0	0	10	10
Macalester A	Macalester B	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Minnesota C	0	0	0	0
Nebraska	Wisconsin	0	0	0	0
BU	Brown C	0	0	0	0
Bowdoin A	BC B	0	0	10	10
Amherst B	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Clemenceau	MIT B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Lloyd George	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Wilson	BC A	0	0	10	10
Amherst A	Brown A	0	0	10	10
Brown B	Tufts B	0	0	10	10
Williams	Cornell-UG	0	0	10	10
Harvard	MIT A	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth	Yale A	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Orlando	Yale B	0	0	10	10
St. Thomas	Iowa State	0	0	0	0
British Columbia D	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Alberta	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Washington A	Washington B	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Northwestern C	0	0	0	0
McGill D	Alberta B	0	0	10	10
Arizona State A	Northwestern A	0	0	0	0
Northwestern B	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Ohio	UTD B	0	0	10	10
Tulsa	Rose State	0	0	0	0
Texas B	UCO	0	10	10	20
Arizona State B	UTD A	0	0	0	0
Mississippi State A	Auburn B	0	0	10	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Alabama B	Huntsville B	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Sewanee A	0	0	0	0
Huntsville A	UAB A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Auburn A	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	0	0	0	0
RIT B	Cornell-DII	0	0	0	0