I begin, in this section, by making a prima facie case for psycho-physical
overdetermination, given the assumption of dualism.
"Contradiction and
Overdetermination." For Marx, translated by Ben Brewster, Penguin Press, 1969.
While perhaps hard to justify further, the intuition that
overdetermination is impossible must be respected.
The poems uncanny tercets repeatedly ask what one is to do with the "relics" or traces of Jesus--frequently visual images fraught with tremendous symbolic
overdetermination: "Each joke is a scandalous coffin for a carpenter" (72).
Chapter 6, "The Direct Argument for Incompatibilism," appeals to examples of preemptive and simultaneous
overdetermination (which resemble Frankfurt examples in some respects) to undermine Peter van Inwagen's direct argument for the incompatibility of moral responsibility and causal determinism.
Conversely, Ferns sees dystopia as a genre with "fewer limitations" (22) because "in resisting the authoritarian aspirations of the state, dystopian dissidents may be seen as offering, at a narrative level, an embodiment of the reader's own resistance to the closure and
overdetermination which so often characterizes the traditional utopia" (22).
When the same has become the other's same, and the suffocating display of differences has led to indifference by
overdetermination, a generally attentive critic like Margaret Morse provides us--even in the absence of a discussion of Deleuzian 'virtuality'--with a can and may opener to the bearably original, infant world of the virtual.
The
overdetermination condition (2.4) in terms of u has the form
The spurious consensus may reflect what Kahan (2006) terms "expressive
overdetermination." Kahan defines a law or policy as expressively overdetermined when it bears meanings sufficiently rich in nature and large in number to enable diverse cultural groups to find simultaneous affirmation of their values in it.