--- abstract: 'After some preliminary clarifications, arguments for the supposed asymmetry of supervenience and determination, such as they are, are shown to be unsound. An argument against the supposed asymmetry is then constructed and defended against objections. This is followed by explanations of why the intuition of asymmetry is nonetheless so entrenched, and of how the asymmetric ontological priority of the physical over the non-physical can be understood without the supposed asymmetry of supervenience and determination.' altloc: - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/~postjf/revads.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Post given: John F. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2000 date_type: published datestamp: 1999-08-26 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/03/91 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Pereira given: L. C. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Wrigley given: M. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 391 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/391/1/revads.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: inpress issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'supervenience, supervene, determination, determine, nonreductive determination, Kim, reduction, explanation, physicalism, priority, ontological priority, asymmetry, asymmetric, asymmetric ontological priority, transitivity, primacy, ontological primacy, identity' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:52 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Festshcrift in Honor of Oswaldo Chateaubriand publisher: Manuscrito refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:27:15 subjects: - phil-epist - phil-metaphys - phil-mind - phil-sci - psy-bio - psy-ling - psy-phys succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Is Supervenience Asymmetric? type: bookchapter userid: 331 volume: ~