AbstractSupervenience is a new paradigm in contemporary western philosophy of mind, which has attracted close attention and has been highly valued. This paper, based on the rich first-hand data, makes a comprehensive analysis on and a thorough exploration of the following aspects: the origin and the major issues of contemporary supervenience research; types of supervenience and their relationships; the relationships between supervenience, reduction and decision; the gain and loss of western research and its revelations. The paper concludes with a view that properties and relations of superveni...
