Event Supervenience and Supervenient Causation

Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (S1):71-91 (1983)
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In this paper, I examine, from a metaphysical point of view, a recent notable attempt by Jaegwon Kim to explain how macro-events are dependent on micro-events and how causal transactions between macro-events are dependent on causal transactions between micro-events.

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