ABSTRACT
The thesis is “global” in the sense, among others, of being about all things and their properties everywhere everywhen. For each thing in the world and for any nonphysical property it may have – mental, semantic, valuational, whatever – physical conditions determine whether it has that property. In any case, the thesis is “global” in a further sense: it generalizes over all the relevant worlds and over whole worlds to boot. Another name for the thesis expressed by (D) is ‘global super-venience’. Thus, (D) expresses a sweeping thesis of supervenient determination. How can we tell whether a principle of supervenient determination is too permissive, too restrictive, or perhaps just right? This is largely an empirical matter of what in the world physically determines what.
